by Leslie Brody
WWII: Battle of Britain; effect on Decca; end of; invasion of Russia; Japanese internment; lead-up to; liberation of Paris; Pearl Harbor bombing; post-war rationing in England; siege of Stalingrad; Soviet alliance; U.S. fuel conservation; U.S. intervention
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Yaddo
Yale
Ye Merrie England Village
Yippies
Young Communist League
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Zellner, Bob
Copyright © 2010 by Leslie Brody. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
PERMISSIONS
The author is grateful to the following for kindly granting permission for copyright material to be Sussman; Rare Books Room and Manuscript Library of the Ohio State University Libraries: The Jessica Mitford Collection; The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire for quotations from The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters and Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, both edited by Charlotte Mosley, and passages from Nancy Mitford’s novels: Noblesse Oblige and Don’t Tell Alfred; Virginia Foster Durr II, executor of the Durr estate for letters and for the use of content and quotes from Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr, edited by Hollinger F. Barnard, and Freedom Writer by Patricia Sullivan; authorized quotations from filmed interviews included in the Jessica Mitford archive; Anthea Fursland for quotations from Jessica Mitford: A Levinsonian Study of Mid-Life, Berkeley, California: Wright Institute, 1990; “I am bound, and fast bound so / That from thee I cannot go / If I co’d, I wo’d not so,” Robert Herrick, “The Bracelet to Julia” from The Poems of Robert Herrick, edited, with a biographical introduction, by John Masefield, London: E. Grant Richards, 1906; “No es sueño la vida,” Federico Garcia Lorca, “Ciudad sin sueño,” in Poet in New York, translated from the Spanish by Pablo Medina and Mark Statman, New York: Grove Press, 2008; “Murmur a little sadly how love fled / And paced upon the mountains overhead / And hid his face amid a crowd of stars,” William Butler Yeats, “When You Are Old” from The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, Ware, Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994.
Photographs from the Mitford/Treuhaft family photo archive used with permission. Otherwise credits have been listed on the photo insert.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brody, Leslie.
Irrepressible : the life and times of Jessica Mitford / by Leslie Brody. p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-582-43855-9
1. Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996. 2. Women communists—United States—Biography. 3. Women journalists—United States—Biography. 4. Women radicals—United States—Biography. 5. Women civil rights workers—United States—Biography. 6. British Americans—Biography. 7. Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996—Family. I. Title. II. Title: Life and times of Jessica Mitford.
HX84.M55B76 2010
335.43092—dc22
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2010017800
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