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The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
Mary S. Lovell
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Description for The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
Paperback. * A revealing - amusing and sad - biography of a unique family Num Pages: 624 pages, Section: 24, B&W. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 38. Weight in Grams: 528.
'A sensational saga' Mail on Sunday
'A cracking read' Lynn Barber, Observer
'Engrossing from beginning to end' Vogue
'Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating' New York Times Book Review
Even if the six daughters, born between 1904 and 1920, of the charming, eccentric David, Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney had been quite ordinary women, the span of their lives - encompassing the most traumatic century in Britain's history - and the status to which they were born, would have made their story a fascinating one. But Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Decca and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349115054
SKU
V9780349115054
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About Mary S. Lovell
Mary S. Lovell has written several major biographies, including The Churchills, Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton and Straight on till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham. She lives in Hampshire. For further information on books by Mary S. Lovell, please visit her website at www.lovellbiographies.com.
Reviews for The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
I enjoyed The Mitford Girls enormously... Lovell has had access to material which was not previously available... she paints a somewhat more human, in fact more tragic, picture of the Mitfords than previous biographers
Observer
In the first book devoted to the whole tribe, Lovell does sterling work in revising our Nancy-made image of her parents in her ... Read more
Observer
In the first book devoted to the whole tribe, Lovell does sterling work in revising our Nancy-made image of her parents in her ... Read more