The Mitfords: A Bibliography

So, you’ve been around the Hairpin for a while, and you’ve started saying to yourself, who are the Mitfords, and why should I care? Or, you already know everything about the Mitfords, and you just want a chance to say YES THIS THEM AMAZING.

Quick Primer:

They were English. There were a lot of them. They were siblings. They had a crazy father. They either wrote books, or hung out with Hitler, or spent all their time hunting, or penned fabulous letters while doing some combination of the same.

Nancy = airy, arch, funny, shallow (Amy March)
Jessica = spunky, thoughtful, rebellious (Jo March)
Diana = gorgeous, super misguided, hella fascist (Leni Riefenstahl without the camera)
Unity = unstable, troubled, dark, and some combination of mentally ill or Totally a Nazi (Sylvia Plath without the poetry)
Debo = alive, delightful, prolific, stately (The Queen Mum without being dead)
Pamela = horsey, unconcerned, charmingly dykey (Velvet Brown)
Thomas = totally pointless and easily overlooked (Branwell Brontë)

1. The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels, Nancy Mitford

2. Hons and Rebels, Jessica Mitford

3. The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford

3. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, by Mary S. Lovell

4. The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, Charlotte Mosley

5. Wait for Me! Memoirs, Deborah Mitford