Hons and rebels.

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Jessica Mitford: Hons and rebels. (1960, V. Gollancz)

222 pages

English language

Published Sept. 28, 1960 by V. Gollancz.

OCLC Number:
925334

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Hons and Rebels, originally published in the United States under the title Daughters and Rebels, is a 1960 autobiography by political activist Jessica Mitford, which describes her aristocratic childhood and the conflicts between her and her sisters Unity and Diana, who were ardent supporters of Nazism. Jessica was a supporter of Communism and eloped with her second cousin, Esmond Romilly, to fight with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, and Diana grew up to marry Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. Unity befriended Nazi leader Hitler, who praised her as an ideal of Aryan beauty. Mitford recalls:

"In the windows, still to be seen, are swastikas carved into the glass with a diamond ring, and for every swastika a carefully delineated hammer and sickle. They were put there by my sister Unity and myself when we were children. Hanging on the walls are framed …

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  • Mitford, Jessica, 1917- -- Childhood and youth
  • England -- Biography
  • England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century