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letters J.K. Rowling tells of her admiration for the incurably rebellious jessica mitford, the first 'it girl' Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford EDITED BY PETER Y. SUSSMAN WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 25, 768 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
; Jessica Mitford has been my heroine since I was 14 years...Hons and Rebels, the first volume of Jessica Mitford's autobiography. Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford gives, as letters usually do, a much...
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Author Jessica Mitford Dies of Lung Cancer
; 00-00-0000 Jessica Mitford, author and social activist, died...undertakers. BOB EDWARDS, Host: Jessica Mitford, author and social activist, died...C's Neal Churchman [sp] has more on Jessica Mitford's life and career. NEAL CHURCHMAN...
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Muckraking Author Jessica Mitford Dies; Investigated Funeral Homes, U.S. Prisons
; Jessica Mitford, 78, the muckraking author...long-running television serial, Miss Mitford retained the mannerisms and...embarrass the guilty." Miss Mitford, known as "Decca," was born...Redesdale, and Sydney Bowles Mitford. The children were schooled...Hitler. As a young woman, Jessica ...
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Journalism loses 2 first ladies // Jessica Mitford, muckraker and hellraiser, set standards for investigation
; ...Truly Loved One, Jessica Mitford, died Tuesday morning...Exxon of the field. Mitford's expose made her...to her simply as "Jessica." "Famous by first...the novelist Nancy Mitford, her sister Diana...became a duchess. Jessica became a Communist...
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Total optimism reigned.(Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford)(Book review)
; Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford Edited by Peter Y. Sussman...of the United States, Jessica Mitford was an unlikely, even...family--fans of Nancy Mitford's novels, or voyeurs...surprised to discover that Jessica, who ran away at nineteen...
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A romp through radical bohemia ; Decca: the Letters of Jessica Mitford Ed. Peter Y Sussman WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON [pound]25 (744pp)
; No doubt about it: Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) had one...any one of the six Mitford sisters, is her voice. Jessica herself denied that...About the alleged 'Mitford voice' - don't you...remarkable thing about Jessica's style, even half...
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Obituary: Jessica Mitford
; Jessica Mitford, the writer and campaigner...edge of the Cotswolds. Jessica Lucy Mitford, always know to friends...nearby at Swinbrook, where Jessica - along with Nancy, Pam...fictionalised account of the Mitford family in The Pursuit...
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Mitford, Jessica Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford.(Brief article)(Book review)
; Mitford, Jessica Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford. Ed. Peter Y. Sussman. New York: Knopf, 2006. 744 pp. $47.00. [T]hey were headline fodder from the beginning, the six female progeny of Lord and Lady Redesdale ... perhaps the only sane response...
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from decca with love LETTERS bored by the Debutante season, Jessica Mitford turned to communism. Her Letters - edited by Peter Y. Sussman - shed new light on her remarkable life and times
; Jessica Mitford, daughter of the second Lord and Lady Redesdale, ran away as a teenager from her home in the Cotswolds to join the Reds in Spain...argument, with her privileged upbringing, her unruly family and the tempestuous political passions of the era in which she was raised. Jessica was born on 11 ...
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JESSICA MITFORD, 78, PENNED EXPOSE ON UNDERTAKER BUSINESS.(NEWS)(Obituary)
; ...Martha Irvine Associated Press Jessica Mitford, whose book ``The American Way...business, died Tuesday. She was 78. Mitford died of lung cancer at her Oakland home. Written in 1963, Mitford's book poked fun at the euphemisms...
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