Deborah mitford

.I never miss a chance for another book-mostly at this point I am booking it for older books-Not the shiny new ones, though they are good too. It's ALL the books I missed and should have read that I seek. Anything memoir-ish or biography-ish or auto- Perfection. A recent Winner- LOVED ONES, PEN PORTRAITS BY DIANA MOSLEY. If you want a good portrait go to a good friend for the goods. Diana Mosley's pen sketches include her husband, Sir Oswald Mosley, Lytton Strachey and Carrington, Evelyn…

English socialite Deborah Mitford, one of the famed Mitford sisters, with her father Lord Redesdale on her wedding day, April 19th 1941.

"Debo," the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, has died aged 94

The sisters (minus Deborah) / Wikipedia The Mitford sisters were like a train wreck wrapped in a tornado wrapped in a circus fire – you could't avert your eyes from their lives. The Times' Ben Macintyre famously caricaturised the women with impressive pithy: "Diana the Fascist, Jessica the Commu

Deborah Mitford with her family

The last remaining Mitford sister has passed away aged 94

A selection of photographs from Mary McCartney, ahead of her new show at the Lowry, Developing

I was over the moon this morning when I learned that Sotheby’s London will be auctioning off the collection of Deborah, the Duchess of Devonshire (one of the six famous Mitford sisters). The late Duchess was an English style icon and her home, Chatsworth, is one of the finest estates in England. I ate up her memoir, […]

Although The Mitford Society is shocked and saddened by the passing of Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, we feel it is a day for reflection on her long and fascinating life. Our thoughts …

The dowager duchess of Devonshire was an author and businesswoman who helped turned her husband’s ancestral estate into one of England’s successful grand country houses.