by Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford's sarcastic and witty tone is directed at her own family in her memoir, Hons and Rebels, of her life growing up in aristocratic English family during the 1920's and 30's. Her upbringing, education by governesses, and adventures with her large family (including some very eccentric sis...
Wonderful book. Poignant, insightful, interesting - and left me wanting to find out more about [a:Jessica Mitford|24401|Jessica Mitford|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1196207252p2/24401.jpg]. I have purchased [b:Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford|112827|Decca The Letters of Jessica Mitford|Jes...
Rating: 4.25* of fiveI fastened on this at a liberry sale I went to recently, remembering that some fellow LTer was on a Mitford Girls kick. I was inspired to buy it by its ten cent price and also its ghastly, 60s-Penguin "artwork" cover. I like that it says "3/6" for a price, so exotic and incompre...
Though she was born into a wonderfully eccentric upper class English family, Jessica Mitford was set on escaping--she started a "running away" savings account at Drummond's Bank in London when she was twelve. At nineteen she eloped with her rebel cousin and they ran away together to the Spanish Civi...
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