[Book Note] Jessica Mitford: Hons and Rebels

[bimo]

Just briefly:

Hons and Rebels caught my attention mostly due to a review regarding its newly published German language edition.While I'm sure to have heard of Jessica Mitford before (journalist and civil rights activist, self-proclaimed 'red sheep' in a somewhat notorious and bizarre, Hitler-supporting conservative  British upper class family), I had no idea Mitford's childhood memoir, telling the story of her own emancipation from the confinements of family and class  would turn out such stunning reading material.

Comments

[selenak]

Hons and Rebels is one of those books I've been meaning to read and never quite got around to.

Re: other Mitfords, I did read some of Nancy's books - the biography she wrote about Madame de Pompadour, and her correspondance with Evelyn Waugh, which is hilarious (reviewed it here: http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/431478.html)

[bimo]

Like I said, Hons and Rebels is well worth reading. I only wonder what it says about me that I found Mitford's account of her childhood far more fascinating than her time spent with Esmond Romilly in southern Europe and the U.S. .

Also, lots of thanks for the link! :-)