Jessica Mitford was a muckracking journalist and memoirist, radical activist and wit. Born to an English aristocratic family, ...

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her ...

A graphic episode from Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me. Mimi Pond is a cartoonist and graphic novelist whose previous works include Over Easy and The Customer Is Always Wrong. Zohran Mamdani Is ...

"January 2000"--Title page verso. Overview: Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an expose of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly ...

Perhaps the least scandalous of then Mitford sisters, Deborah (or “Debo”) would grow up to become the Duchess of Devonshire and the chatelaine of Chatsworth House, which she managed to change from ...

Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her best-known one, "The American Way Of Death," published in 1963. It revealed how the funeral ...

The six British sisters are the subject of a new Britbox series. In 1989, Jessica Mitford talked with Terry Gross about her relationship with the Communist Party and her book about the death industry.