nancy mitford the mitfords letters between six sisters

“Nothing captures their enduring allure quite like their own correspondence…With this epistolary testament to sisterhood, the mystery of the Mitfords.has at last been solved.” - Vogue “Fascinating.The sisters had the stiff upper lip of their class, and, it must be said, a way with words.” - Wall Street Journal “Marvelous…Beautiful, intelligent, and fiercely independent, each sister went her own way, as is so powerfully revealed in this selection of witty, amusing and sometimes shocking letters…There’s hardly a page that isn’t interesting.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune “THE MITFORDS could have been an operatic group biography on an epic scale: Instead, thanks to its editor’s taste and discretion, it is chamber music with symphonic longings… an intriguing record of each sister’s personality… all six could write evocatively, even hauntingly.” - Washington Post Book World “Marvelous.THE MITFORDS is quite simply one of the most sinful guilty pleasures of the season.” - Baltimore Sun “A splendid introduction to the eccentric charms of the Mitford world…On my short list of best books of the year.” - Newsday

“Funny, loving, sparkly, snarky, heartbreaking, chilling, gossipy, wise….You’ll be rewarded with six up-close, personal-and sometimes appalling-takes on the 20th century.” - O magazine “Fascinating.Their irresistible appeal comes from the way they invite us into the close family circle.” - New York Times Book Review 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. The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged siblings through their own unabashed correspondence. As editor Charlotte Mosley notes, not since the Brontës have the members of a single family written so much about themselves, or have been so written about. 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 Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time.

“Fascinating” ( Wall Street Journal) and “Irresistible” ( New York Times Book Review), The Mitfords is the critically-acclaimed collection of the never-before-published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters

Nancy mitford the mitfords letters between six sisters