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The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters / Laura Thompson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA566.9.A1 T62 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Laura, 1964- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Take six girls
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973.
- Mitford, Nancy.
- Mitford, Pamela, 1907-1994.
- Mitford, Pamela.
- Mosley, Diana, 1910-2003.
- Mosley, Diana.
- Mitford, Unity, 1914-1948.
- Mitford, Unity.
- Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996.
- Mitford, Jessica.
- Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of, 1920-2014.
- Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish.
- Mitford family.
- Women authors, English--20th century--Biography.
- Women authors, English.
- Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Sisters--Great Britain--Biography.
- Sisters.
- Great Britain--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Other Title:
- Lives of the Mitford sisters
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they becameprominent as "bright young things" in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark--and very public--differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives--recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson--hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after WWII."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of
- ISBN:
- 9781250099532 : HRD
- 1250099536 : HRD
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