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Jessica Fellowes has written six mystery novels, The Mitford Murders (2017), Bright Young Dead (2018), The Mitford Scandal (2020),The Mitford Trial (2021), The Mitford Vanishing (2022), and The Mitford Secret (2023), which feature the three oldest sisters, Nancy, Pamela, and Diana as major characters, and the rest of the family in supporting ...
David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (2nd creation), father of the Mitford sisters, inherited Asthall Manor on the death of his father in August 1916 [6] and in 1919 moved his family there from Batsford Park.
Shannon Watson as Unity Mitford; Zoe Brough as Jessica Mitford; Orla Hill as Deborah Mitford, the youngest Mitford sister; Toby Regbo as Tom Mitford, the sisters’ only brother; Anna Chancellor as Sydney Bowles, the siblings’ mother, known to them as ‘Muv’ James Purefoy as David Freeman-Mitford, the siblings’ father, known to them as ...
Nancy Mitford’s semi-autobiographical novels, including the classic The Pursuit of Love, may be responsible for giving her family a reputation for charmingly eccentric British aristocracy, but ...
The Mitford family in 1928. Redesdale and his wife had one son and six daughters, who all used the surname Mitford rather than Freeman-Mitford: Hon. Nancy Mitford (1904–1973), who married the Hon. Peter Rodd. They divorced in 1957. Hon. Pamela Mitford (1907–1994), who married Derek Jackson, a physicist and the son of Sir Charles Jackson.
Nancy Freeman-Mitford [n 1] CBE (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973) was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. The eldest of the Mitford sisters, she was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France, and is ...
Her sisters Unity and Diana were well-known Fascists. Jessica (known as "Decca" to family and friends) later described her conservative father as "one of nature's fascists", renounced her privileged background while still a teenager, and became an adherent of communism. [5] Mitford said that her parents had "appeased Hitler and Nazism. ...
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