6/12/2023 0 Comments Hons and Rebels by Jessica MitfordLittle wonder that the family dynamics dominated newspaper headlines for decades starting in the 1920s, when Nancy and Diana were debutantes, prominent among the cast of Bright Young Things. Jessica, the Communist, and then the journalist. Then there was Diana, known first as a great beauty of her generation, then as the fascist. Pamela, the “boring” one, as Tina Brown described in a New York Times review of a 2016 group biography. Just now, a Mitford revival has been sparked by the excellent adaptation of the eldest sister’s popular postwar novel The Pursuit of Love. Their associations and affairs are the stuff of 20th-century-history exams. And why not? They were beautiful, aristocratic, and wild. Still, every now and then, there is a flurry of new, or renewed, interest in the Mitford girls. After close to a century of tabloid features on one or all six of them, the youngest and last surviving died in 2014 at age 94. The Mitford sisters never really go anywhere-they are all dead, so perhaps a difficult task.
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