The first paperback edition of the letters of the most remarkable of the Mitford sisters--timed
to a new streaming series about the ever-fascinating family and a new biography of Jessica
coming in 2025. Born into the British aristocracy as one of the famous (and sometimes
infamous) larger-than-life Mitford sisters Jessica "Decca" Mitford ran away to Spain during
the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly Winston Churchill’s nephew then came to
America became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party and embarked
on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist (her funeral-industry exposé
The American Way of Death became an instant classic). She was a celebrated wit a charmer and
throughout her life a prolific and passionate writer of letters—now gathered here. Decca’s
correspondence crackles with irreverent humor and mischief and with acute insight into human
behavior (and misbehavior) that attests to her generous experience of the worlds of politics
the arts journalism publishing and high and low society. Here is correspondence with
everyone from Katharine Graham Betty Friedan Miss Manners Julie Andrews Maya Angelou Harry
Truman and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Decca’s sisters the Duchess of Devonshire and the
novelist Nancy Mitford her parents her husbands her children and her grandchildren.
