Jessica Mitford (1917–1996)
Autor/a de Hons and Rebels
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Obres de Jessica Mitford
Decca & Dectones by Jessica Mitford (1997-02-04) 1 exemplars
Mitford, Jessica Archive 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (2003) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Mitford, Jessica
- Nom oficial
- Mitford, Jessica Lucy
Treuhaft, Jessica Lucy (married) - Altres noms
- Freeman-Mitford, Jessica
- Data de naixement
- 1917-09-11
- Data de defunció
- 1996-07-22
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK (birth)
USA (naturalized | 1944) - Lloc de naixement
- Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Oakland, California, USA
- Causa de la mort
- lung cancer
- Llocs de residència
- Burford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Washington, D.C., USA
Oakland, California, USA
Gloucestershire, England (birth) - Professions
- journalist
writer
political activist
professor - Relacions
- Mitford, Nancy (sister)
Mosley, Diana (sister)
Mitford, Algernon B. (grandfather)
Devonshire, Deborah (sister)
Romilly, Esmond (first husband)
Mosley, Oswald (brother-in-law) (mostra-les totes 14)
Guinness, Desmond (nephew)
Guinness, Jonathan (nephew)
Churchill, Randolph S. (second cousin)
Murphy, Sophia (niece)
Mitford, Unity (sister)
Mitford, Pamela (sister)
York, Catherine (cousin)
Truehaft, Robert (husband) - Organitzacions
- Decca and the Dectones
- Biografia breu
- Jessica Mitford, known in the family as Decca, was one of the six daughters born to English aristocrats David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and his wife Sydney. She received little formal education but was widely read. At age 19, she eloped with her second cousin Esmond Romilly and went first to Spain, where Romilly worked as a war correspondent after having fought in the Spanish Civil War. The couple then lived in the East End of London before leaving England for the USA. At the start of World War II, Romilly enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force; he was killed a few months after Jessica gave birth to their daughter. She remarried in 1943 to Robert Treuhaft, a civil rights lawyer, and moved with him to Oakland, California, and had two sons. Jessica was active in many civil rights causes and left-wing politics. She became an investigative writer and journalist, and published her bestselling exposé of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, in 1963. She also wrote several memoirs, including Hons and Rebels (1960, also known as Daughters and Rebels). Jessica's deeply held beliefs caused her estrangement from her sister Diana, Lady Mosley.
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Read This Next (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 14
- També de
- 6
- Membres
- 3,722
- Popularitat
- #6,807
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 74
- ISBN
- 73
- Llengües
- 4
- Preferit
- 9
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