The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

by Mary S. Lovell

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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family Mary S. Lovell

Apr 23, 2008 Chrissie rated it really liked it review of another edition Shelves: bio, history, great-britain, usa, scotland, audible, ww1, returned, ww2, 2015-read This book/audiobook proves that in fact a very good book can be destroyed by a terrible narratorRead itThus, at an age when other children would be occupied with dolls, group sports, piano lessons or ballet, Debo spent silent hours in the chicken house learning to do an exact imitation of the look of pained concentration that comes over a hen's face when it's laying an eggI had previously really enjoyed Lovell's biography of Bess of Hardwick so I thought this would be a good one to start with Loved, loved, LOVED it! This is a really fascinating biography of the "Mitford Sisters" - 6 sisters who were born into a minor aristocratic British family in the early 1900s and went on to become quite well known for their very unique and individual livesIt's interesting how reality is often far from realisticTheir aristocratic relatives included the Earl of Airlie and Lord MoyneThe Mitfords were aristocrats: gorgeous, eccentric, talentedLondon: Little, Brown and CompanyAnonymous 8 months ago Anonymous 8 months ago Anonymous 8 months ago Anonymous 8 months ago Anonymous 8 months ago Anonymous 8 months ago JCgirl More than 1 year ago A family saga of the Mitford family an upper crust English family between 1894-2000"Everyone knows that killing is wrong, but those little decisions you make when no one is looking--those are the real tests."There was an abundance of willful ignorance and laziness in Europe at that timeI was sorry to reach the last of the almost 600 pagesNancy and Jessica became well-known writers: Nancy the author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate and Jessica's 1963 The American Way of DeathWell-written and thoroughly researched, this is a valuable addition to the Mitford canonOne sister went on to become a well known writer, one moved to Germany and was a supporter and friend of Hitler, one married a Guinness heir but divorced him to marry the founder of the British Fascist party and was interned during WWII, another was a life long communist who eloped with a cousin to the Spanish Civil War, and one married the Duke of Devonshire and is credited helping him turn his ancestral home Chatsworth into one of Britain's most successful stately homesAzon kvl, hogy apjuk nagyon karakn, j humor ember volt, semmivel nem tntek ki a szlk a genercijukbl"Farve" remained a conservative, but "Muv" usually supported her fascist daughters, and the couple separated in the late 1940s

Born into the ranks of the minor aristocracy and educated at home by eccentric and perennially cash-strapped parents, Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah Mitford hardly seemed the types whose exploits would generate endless fodder for the sensationalist pressNorton $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-01043-5 More By and About This Author OTHER BOOKS The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder The Churchills: In Love and War The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart Rebel Heart: The Scandalous Life of Jane Digby Buy this book Amazon Barnes & Noble iBooks IndieBound Powell's In her history of England's Mitford sisters, who were major figures in the international political, literary and social scenes for much of the 20th century, Lovell (The Sound of Wings: The Biography of Amelia Earhart; etc.) rises with aplomb to the challenges of a group biography, deftly weaving together the narrative threads of six at times radically disparate lives to create a fascinating account of a fascinating familyThe daughters were the subject of a 1981 musical, The Mitford Girls, by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin, and of a song, "The Mitford Sisters", by Luke HainesFamous for her adulation of and friendship with Adolf HitlerIn the early 1980s, Deborah became politically active when she and her husband Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire joined the new Social Democratic PartyMember of the American Communist Party until 1958View Product [ x ] close Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War In this brilliant biography TDid they just ignore reality? Or was he so magnetic that they were fooled and just enjoyed his attentionAnnie Wauters does the narrationPlease upgrade your browser.more flag 3 likesLike see review View all 3 comments acfb50e82b

Bess of Hardwick, by Mary S Lovell, draft 2 A review by Philippa Gregory Modern women who bleat about juggling their lives and the impossibility ofWhen Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous female avia.Cast No Shadows by Mary S Lovell starting at $0.99.Buy Mitford Girls by Mary S.The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S Lovell starting at $0.99.

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