Description
| Product ID: | 9781784970895 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Take Six Girls |
| Subtitle: | The Lives of the Mitford Sisters |
| Authors: | Author: Laura Thompson |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, Biography: writers, Collected biographies, History, Biography: literary, Collected biographies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The contrasting lives of the Mitford sisters – stylish, scandalous and tragic by turns – hold up a mirror to upper-class life before and after the Second World War. ''Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them'' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege, they became prominent as ''bright young things'' in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark – and very public – differences in their outlooks came to symbolise the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their lives – recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson – hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after World War II. |
| Imprint Name: | Head of Zeus |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-08-11 |