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Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford è stata una scrittrice, giornalista e attivista britannica, membro della omonima famiglia aristocratica anglosassone.
Jessica Lucy "Decca" Treuhaft (née Freeman-Mitford, later Romilly; 11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.
Jessica Mitford (born Sept. 11, 1917, Gloucestershire, England—died July 23, 1996, Oakland, Calif., U.S.) was an English-born writer and journalist noted for her witty and irreverent investigations of various aspects of American society.
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21 lug 2016 · The woman who forced us to look death in the face. In the 1960s, British aristocrat Jessica Mitford wrote a best-seller on the funeral industry’s practices. Twenty years after her death, she...
25 set 2014 · Jessica, known to friends and family as Decca, counteracted Unity's Nazism and became a communist. Eloping with her fellow communist cousin, Esmond Romilly, she ran off to...
Jessica Mitford (1917-1996), giornalista e scrittrice, figlia di aristocratici inglesi, durante la guerra di Spagna partì per combattere a fianco dei partigiani. Trasferitasi in America, si fece promotrice di numerose battaglie per i diritti civili e divenne famosa con il libro-inchiesta The American Way of Death, pesante attacco al sistema ...
Jessica Mitford, the writer and campaigner, lived for most of her life in Oakland, California, among lawyers, academics and left-wing activists, without ever losing the voice and attributes...
