By Jennie

I first became obsessed with the Mitford sisters in 2001, when I read the enormously compelling and entertaining biography, The Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell. I had been aware of Jessica Mitford as a local (she lived in Oakland, CA for many years) and a muckraking journalist (famous for her expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death), but I had no idea that she came from this scandalous, brilliant and eccentric British family who were somewhat famous (or perhaps infamous) in England during the 20th century.
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