Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head over in...

Introduction to the iç8ç Edition Looking back over three decades to the pubhcation in i960 of my first book, I can still recapture the feeling of intense excitement when I learned it had been accepted by Victor Gollancz, whom I had long admired from afar as founder of the pre-war Left Book...