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Letters Between Six Sisters
Harper
November 2007
On Sale: November 6, 2007
864 pages
ISBN: 0061373648
EAN: 9780061373640
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The great wits and beauties of their age, the Mitford
sisters were immoderate in their passions for ideas and
people, counting among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler
and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy,
Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy. As editor Charlotte Mosley notes,
not since the Brontës have the members of a single family
written so much about themselves, or have been so written about. The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged
sisters: Nancy, the scalding wit who transformed her family
life into bestselling novels; Pamela, who craved nothing
more than a quiet country life; Diana, the fascist jailed
with her husband, Oswald Mosley, during World War II; Unity,
a suicide, torn by her worship of Hitler and her loyalty to
home; Jessica, the runaway Communist and fighter for social
change; and Deborah, the genial socialite who found herself
Duchess of Devonshire. Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters
of the legendary Mitford sisters constitute not just a
superb social and historical chronicle; they also provide an
intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationships
between six beautiful, gifted, and radically different women
who wrote to one another to confide, commiserate, tease,
rage, and gossip—and above all to amuse.
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