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Get this from a library! Decca : the letters of Jessica Mitford.. [Jessica Mitford; Peter Y Sussman] -- ""Decca" Mitford lived a large-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy - one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters - she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with ...
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Jessica, known in the family as Decca, was the fifth daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale and one of the Mitford sisters whose lives have become the stuff of legend.From an early age she rebelled against her life of privilege and at a young age eloped with her cousin Esmond Romilly to join the republican faction then fighting in the Spanish Civil War.The couple eventually moved to America where ...
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The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters. Decca's letters reveal a remarkable life - from her childhood as the daughter of a British peer to her scandalous elopement to the Spanish Civil War with her cousin, to her life in the USA, where she married a radical lawyer.
For sheer pleasure–to sample the breadth of an extraordinary existence–the book of the season has got to be Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford.” –Adam Begley, New York Observer, 2006 Fall Preview “Fifth of the noted Mitford sisters, Jessica (called Decca since childhood) eschewed family politics but kept her mother’s practice of prodigious letter writing, leaving reams of lively ...
‘Jessica Mitford is a sister of mine. If I had to go into a room with a leopard, I wouldn’t hesitate to ask for her’ Maya Angelou Over her 78 years, Decca’s letters reveal a remarkable life – from her childhood as the daughter of a British peer to her scandalous elopement to the Spanish Civil War with her cousin, to her life in the USA, where she married a radical lawyer.
6 de nov. de 2006 · THE TIMES 'Edited by Peter Y. Sussman, Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (Knopf) captures history's most charming muckraker, from her friendships with Katharine Graham and Maya Angelou to her devotion to civil rights, which led to a subpoena to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee-an experience she later listed under Honors, Awards, and Prizes on her resume.'
