The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393010435 (0393010430)
Publish date: January 11th 2002
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (NYC)
Pages no: 623
Edition language: English
Strong 4,5 stars. Very informative!
Before reading "The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family" by Mary S. Lovell, I had already read Hons and Rebels: The Classic Memoir of One of Last Century's Most Extraordinary Families by Jessica Mitford, Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford, and the first two novels by Nancy Mit...
As a biography of the Mitfords, this is quite well done. If you're not interested in the Mitfords or England between the wars, then it's a lot of privilege and name dropping and bon mots and Nazis (or Fascists) versus Communists.I find the Mitfords fascinating, so I quite enjoyed the book. It's al...
Fascinating. You can really see how much of her and her sisters' lives went into Nancy Mitford's novels.
The story of an English family, the Mitfords, and the six remarkable sisters that each had very different lives, and each of whom made their own mark on the 20th century. A very good, if rather ponderous read, but very much worth it. So -- who is your favourite sister?For the complete review, please...
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