false 112880 4 <p> The great wits and beauties of their age, the Mitford sisters were immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, counting among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy. As editor Charlotte Mosley notes, not since the Brontës have the members of a single family written so much about themselves, or have been so written about. </p> <p> <i>The Mitfords</i> offers an unparalleled look at these privileged sisters: Nancy, the scalding wit who transformed her family life into bestselling novels; Pamela, who craved nothing more than a quiet country life; Diana, the fascist jailed with her husband, Oswald Mosley, during World War II; Unity, a suicide, torn by her worship of Hitler and her loyalty to home; Jessica, the runaway Communist and fighter for social change; and Deborah, the genial socialite who found herself Duchess of Devonshire. </p> <p> Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters of the legendary Mitford sisters constitute not just a superb social and historical chronicle; they also provide an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationships between six beautiful, gifted, and radically different women who wrote to one another to confide, commiserate, tease, rage, and gossip&#8212;and above all to amuse. </p> 108688 1 11 2007 The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters total:183|5:70|4:71|3:34|2:8|1:0| 183 752 467 72 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 5 4 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 10 17:33:35 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 17:37:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 5 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 20:14:20 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 16:29:58 -0800 2008
B...more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 2 0 false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 11:29:47 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 10:03:02 -0700 2009 The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate is to those books--she is the most human character and contrasts vividly to the Radlett family, who were based on the Mitfords.

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The correspondence includes exchanges from Nancy Mitford, the eldest, who became a best-selling au...more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 09:00:38 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 18:47:34 -0800 2007 more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 4 0 false Sun Dec 02 21:27:29 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 22 21:31:53 -0800 2007 more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 13:13:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 07:01:20 -0800 2008
Curating these letters was no doubt a gargantuan task for Mosley, but I feel li...more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 0 0 false Tue Jan 15 09:28:22 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 09:31:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 5 0 false Sat Apr 04 14:02:56 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 08 18:49:13 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 04 14:02:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 0 0 false Thu Jan 15 19:11:44 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 19:19:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 112880 0061373648 9780061373640 158 62 4.11 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112880.The_Mitfords_Letters_Between_Six_Sisters 5 0 false Fri Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Feb 02 08:11:42 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 08:11:57 -0800 2008
Reading the letters enabled me to see a different side of the sisters. Nancy, who had been my favourite, was shown to be spiteful and truly unhappy. Her illness and death broke my heart, they reminded me of my own mother's death.

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