Profile for Jessica Mitford from Hitch 22: A Memoir (page 1).
Jessica Mitford was an active participant in the anti-racist movement and the communist party in the US. It seems only her indomitable spirit and sense of humour kept her going through the anti-American witch-hunting inquiries of the 1950s and the own personal tragedies of her family. These letters are both touching and shocking and a must for anyone who has enjoyed the writings of any of the.
Jessica Mitford is best known for her first book, The American Way of Death, which exposes the abuses of the American funeral industry. Mitford's attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, stimulated her interest in the funeral industry while defending some of its alleged victims in court. Treuhaft was also active as an officer of the East Bay Memorial Association (later known as the Bay Area Funeral.
Jessica Mitford is the next-to-the-last youngest of Lord and Lady Redesdale's six legendary daughters - ranging from the eldest, the late novelist Nancy Mitford, to the youngest, the present-day Duchess of Devonshire. She came to America in 1939, and lived in Oakland, California from the 1940s onward.
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Jessica Lucy Mitford, nicknamed Decca or Dec, writer and campaigner, was born in Burford, Oxfordshire on 11 September 1917 and died Oakland, California 23 July 1996. Parents: 7th and penultimate child of David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford (1878-1958), 2nd Baron Redesdale and Sydney Bowles (d. 1963).
By Jennie. I first became obsessed with the Mitford sisters in 2001, when I read the enormously compelling and entertaining biography, The Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell. I had been aware of Jessica Mitford as a local (she lived in Oakland, CA for many years) and a muckraking journalist (famous for her expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death), but I.
A new collection of muckraker Jessica Mitford’s journalism reminds us of one of the sharpest pens around—and what the media is missing today. Jessica Loudis Updated Jul. 14, 2017 9:29PM ET.