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“Decca” Mitford lived a larger-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 her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill’s nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, and embarked on a brilliant career as a ...
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, 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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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 ...
- Jessica Mitford
"Decca" contains the annotated letters of Jessica Mitford aka Decca Treuhaft, one of the six Mitford daughters and a member of the Communist Party of the United States. I'm giving the book five stars because Peter Sussman has done an extraordinary (or as Mitford would write, "extraorder") job in selecting, editing, and annotating Mitford's letters cleanly, clearly, and without introducing his ...
