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The fictional "Combe sisters" in the BBC 2 series Bellamy's People, first broadcast in 2010, bear a striking resemblance to the Mitford sisters. Bellamy meets two of the surviving Combe sisters, said to have been notorious in the 1930s and '40s for their extreme political views, now living together in a strained relationship in the dramatically ...
Asthall Manor is a gabled Jacobean Cotswold manor house in Asthall, Oxfordshire. It was built in about 1620 [1] and altered and enlarged in about 1916. [1] The house is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England. [2] Early in the 20th century, the house was the childhood home of the Mitford sisters.
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (2007), edited by Charlotte Mosley, ISBN 0-06-137364-8; In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (2008), edited by Charlotte Mosley; Home to Roost . . . and Other Peckings (2009) Wait for Me!... Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister (2010) All in One Basket (2011)
Titled Outrageous, the series is being written by Sarah Williams, based on Mary S. Lovell’s biography The Mitford Girls, and promises to "bring the full, uncensored story of the Mitford sisters ...
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, GCVO, KCB, JP, DL, FRPS (24 February 1837 – 17 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector and writer, whose most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nicknamed "Bertie", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters.
In 1926, David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale had Swinbrook House built 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the village. [5] Four of his six daughters (the "Mitford sisters") are buried in the parish churchyard: Nancy, Unity, and Diana are buried side by side, while Pamela is buried northwest of the tower. [6]
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 ...
Mitford Old Manor House is an historic English manor house at Mitford, Northumberland, and is a Grade II* listed building. [1] The Manor of Mitford was held from ancient times by the Mitford family. The Manor House previously stood, adjacent to the old church of St Mary Magdalene, on the eastern side of the River Wansbeck. The substantial ruins ...