biography
| name: |
Mitford, Jessica (Lucy)
|
| sex:
| female
|
| lived:
| (1917–96)
|
| biography:
| Writer, the sister of Diana, Nancy, and Unity Mitford. She wrote Hons and Rebels (1960), her autobiography and story of the unconventional Mitford childhood. She went to the USA in 1939, became a Communist, and married in 1943. Later books included The American Way of Death (1963), The Trial of Dr Spock (1970), The Making of a Muckraker (1979), and Grace Had an English Heart: the Story of Grace Darling (1988). |
|
|
