Showing posts with label Hons and Rebels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hons and Rebels. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 November 2024

Hons and Rebels 3 - The End (Pages 104 - end)


 RATING: GOOD

This is the last part of the book. I have enjoyed Jessica Mitford's vision of her own family. I loved the part about her growing up, but I have to say that I found the last part dull. When Jessica travels to America with her husband and meets all these new people, that did not grip my attention so much.

Sunday, 3 November 2024

Hons and Rebels 2 (Pages 56 - 104)


 The family had a house in London, 26 Rutland Gate, in Kensington. 26 Rutland Gate is a large, detached house on Rutland Gate in the Knightsbridge district. In the 1920s and 1930s, the house was the London home during the Season of the Mitford family, who acquired the lease on the house for £28,000 after selling Asthall Manor, their country house in Oxfordshire

Saturday, 2 November 2024

New Book - Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford (Pages 1 - 56)


 This is a memoir written by Jessica Mitford about her life with her family. Jessica Lucy "Decca"  Freeman-Mitford (11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.