Jessica Mitford

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born

September 11, 1917 in The United Kingdom

died

July 22, 1996

gender

female

website

http://www.themitfordinstitute.org/

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford was an English author, journalist and political campaigner, who was one of the Mitford sisters. She gained American citizenship in later life.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 1,777 ratings · 275 reviews · 17 distinct works

	Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 4.08 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 1960 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The American Way of Death Revisited 3.96 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford by Jessica Mitford, Peter Y. Sussman (Editor) 4.10 avg rating — 119 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The American Way of Death 3.91 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1961 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The American Way of Birth 3.80 avg rating — 99 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Fine Old Conflict 4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford, Carl Bernstein (Afterword) 4.05 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1979 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Kind and usual punishment: The prison business 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Trial Of Dr. Spock, The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr, Michael Goodman And Marcus Raskin 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Grace and an English Heart 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
― Jessica Mitford

tags: muck-raking , social-action , writing

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“Objectivity? I always have an objective. ”
― Jessica Mitford

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“One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.”
― Jessica Mitford, Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

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