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Hons and Rebels | Slightly Foxed literary Jessica Mitford | Hons and Rebels | Slightly Foxed literary

I can't believe how moved I was by this book. I'm accustomed to starting to read my next book the moment I finish the previous one, but for some reason I couldn't here. I needed several hours to savour Hons and Rebels. It broke my heart in the strangest way.Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth I am so glad that I finally read this book that's as old as I am, being published in 1960. (My copy isn't that old, it dates from 1962.) It's very instructive to be reminded that youth isn't necessarily wasted on the young. Wigs on the Green is still a satire of Nancy’s social set, but since that social set had come to include avowed Nazis and avowed communists, so does the novel: It skewers Diana’s courtship with the fascist Mosley, and Unity’s budding fascism. (Diana eventually forgave Nancy for the book, but Unity never did.) By the time she released Pigeon Pie in 1940, Nancy was writing light social satire about the war. The heroine of Pigeon Pie is an English aristocrat who transforms herself into a Beautiful Female Spy to fight the fascists.

Selina Hastings | Jessica Mitford | Slightly Foxed literary

Considering my recent interest in the 1930’s, I absolutely must read this! Sounds like a fascinating and very personal look at this time period. As an American, my first Mitford was Decca because we read “The American Way of Death” in school. She was my only Mitford until Nancy’s books were reprinted in perhaps (?) the 1970s early 80s, and I only met all the rest in the last five or so years. So I have a soft spot, and admire her lefty leanings.The Romilly family's solution to all problems seems to be running away. He began by running away from boarding school, setting himself up as a "centre for runaways"--of his own class, of course. The child Decca creates a "running away from home" bank account, and subsequently goes with Romilly to Spain, where they basically sit around; he writes about the people who truly are starving and dying in the streets, while the couple themselves live rent-free in the press hotel and consume "huge greasy" meals of many courses. Sometimes we would barricade with chairs and stage pitched battles, throwing books and records until Nanny came to tell us to stop the noise. More than an extremely amusing autobiography…she has evoked a whole generation. Her book is full of the music of time.”

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On the day war was declared, Unity went to the Englischer Garten in Munich and shot herself. She survived, but was left with permanent brain damage. Hitler arranged for her to be moved to a hospital in Switzerland, whence her parents collected her. Muv nursed her devotedly, but Farve was so upset he went off with the parlour maid and in effect ended the marriage. The Mosleys were, meanwhile, imprisoned for most of the war, with Decca warmly urging Churchill not to release them. Tom was killed in Burma; Unity died of meningitis in 1948. Jessica Mitford's dashing and dramatic life story is almost too good to be true from a biography standpoint--and she's so utterly appealing that I think I have a bit of crush on her. Aristocratic and hilariously eccentric upbringing, one of the famous/infamous Mitford sisters (their number including a noted writer in Nancy, not one but TWO Nazis, and a communist--that's Jessica), elopement with her dreamy second cousin and their travels to go fight in the Spanish Civil War, emmigrating to America on next to no money, romantic slumming around the USA...you really could not make a lot of this stuff up. This is a very romantic book; the relationship between Esmund and her, especially their time on the road in America, is so sweetly portrayed. I really enjoyed seeing pre-war America through their eyes. Also, there is some lovely writing about the importance that books can have on the interior life of bookish children that had me nodding my head in agreement. Jessica Mitford was the "Ballroom Communist" of the engagingly eccentric Mitford Family. The second youngest daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdalee, she had an unconventional upbringing where education was the bare minimum to make a good wife. Always wishing for an escape from her family, be it through schooling or politics or moving to another continent, she suffered through being a deb and presentation before the queen and watching her family come apart at the seems due to adivergence in beliefs. But at her first chance she ran off with her cousin, Esmond Rommilly , the nephew of Winston Churchill, to fight Franco in Spain. What with all of England trying to force her home, sending really big ships no less, even the courts of Chancery, it's surprising that she actually was able to succeed in her convictions and in marryingEsmond. The madcap and eccentric life that followed from Rotherhithe to the United States with Esmond equals that of her earlier life, but with herself being the master of her fate.I wonder if you got any sense from the book as to Jessica’s attitudes to her siblings – particularly Diana and Unity? That sitting room barricade stuff is a terrifying glimpse into how the outside politics must have spilled over into childhood play. It reminded me of Stephen Poliakoff’s recent film ‘Glorious 39’, in which Poliakoff, as so often in his work, uses children as a way into exploring political issues – in that film the attempts by some to appease Hitler.

Hons and Rebels | The Society of Hons Jessica Mitford | Hons and Rebels | The Society of Hons

Lo admito, me ha sorprendido muy gratamente esta lectura en todos los sentidos. Me esperaba algo mil veces peor escrito y muy insípido, y me he encontrado con todo lo contrario. Es un libro que está muy bien escrito, de una forma muy ágil y que se lee muy bien. De hecho, realmente me lo he leído en dos días en que le he dedicado un poco de tiempo.The past decade of political polarization shows no sign of abating, and it continues to turn not just countries but families against each other. Once-in-a-lifetime natural disasters are becoming once-a-decade disasters in the wake of catastrophic climate change. The world is fundamentally reorganizing itself before our eyes, and in such a destabilizing moment, there is something useful in looking at a family who found its world, too, shifting and changing in ways none of them could have predicted. And who exemplifies that situation better than the Mitfords? On October 20, a new film adaptation of John Williams’s novel Butcher’s Crossing, published by NYRB Classics in 2007, will be released in select movie theaters across the U.S. Directed by Gabe Polsky, the film stars Nicolas Cage as the frontiersman Miller and Fred Hechinger... It's a classic memoir of a classic time, the 1920s and the 1930s, which is one of my favourite periods of history anyway. The characters who wander in and out of Hons and Rebels are a marvel, think Evelyn Waugh, Winston Churchill, WH Auden. Even Adolf Hitler had something to say about Jessica Mitford!