Mosley, Diana's niece, will select from an archive of 18,000, to which she has exclusive access. Their letters are widely recognized to contain the best of their writing. As editor Charlotte Mosley notes, not since the Brontes has a single family written so much about themselves, or been so written about. Virtually spanning the century, these letters between the sisters - alternately touching and explosive - constitute a superb social chronicle, and explore with disarming intimacy their shifting relationships. The Mitfords became myth in their own time: the great wits and beauties of their age, they were immoderate in their passions for ideas and people. Jessica, the runaway, a communist and fighter for social change.
Pamela, who craved nothing more than a quiet country life. Debo, who adored pleasure and fun, and found herself Duchess of Devonshire. Unity, a suicide, torn by her worship of Hitler and her loyalty to home.
Diana, the fascist jailed with her husband, Oswald Mosley, during WWII. Nancy, the scalding wit who parlayed her family life into bestselling novels.
The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family.
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