The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
by Charlotte Mosley
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Author: Charlotte MosleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-28
ISBN: 0061375403
Number of pages: 896
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: Overwhelming but so good!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been a Mitford aficionado since I stumbled across a copy of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, by Nancy Mitford, with a foreword by Jessica Mitford which commented that the Radletts were based on the Mitfords. I loved the novels, and was intrigued by the Mitford legend, so I started looking for other stuff about them. A quarter of a century later, I have read all of Nancy's novels, Jessica's autobiographies, Diana's same, and numerous biographies, including the Jonathan and Catherine Guinness history of the family, which started with David Mitford's grandfather.
This book of letters is a treasure trove for me. To hear them in their own voices, through the medium of print is to really see them the most clearly. All of them wrote and expressed themselves wonderfully, even Pam with her dictionary at her side. To see the events of their lives directly through their eyes and to see each sister through the eyes of the other five is equally illuminating. They all seemed to both love and hate each other passionately.
The most perceptive letter was one by, I think, Deborah, about Diana, which stated that she felt that Diana had to uphold her husband, Oswald Mosley all her life after the end of their imprisonment because to not do so would mean that she would have to admit that her life was wasted and that she sacrificed so much for nothing. A chilling truth. Diana was probably the most intelligent of the sisters, from sources I have read, but she had to make herself not see truth in order to live with what she had done. Diana is, to me, the most pathetic of the sisters, followed by Nancy and her prickliness and her love for a man who didn't love her.
What a story. I only wish now for a collection of the mother's letters, which are referred to in the daughters'. Their parents fascinate me as much as they do themselves.
Oh, Ms. Mosley......!
Summary of The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, they counted among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy.
The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged siblings through their own unabashed correspondence. Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters of the legendary Mitfords constitute a superb social and historical chronicle and an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationships between six beautiful, gifted, and radically different women.
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