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Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford (September 11, 1917 – July 22, 1996) was an English author, journalist and political campaigner, who was one of the Mitford sisters. Mitford, the sixth of seven children,...
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A memorial to the 'Queen of the Muckrakers', Jessica Mitford, aka, Decca...information on new book - The American Way of Death Revisited, biography, articles, featured guests, and more ... The Jessica Mitford and Robert Treuhaft Memorial Site...
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Jessica Mitford, Mordant Critic of American Ways, and a British Upbringing, Dies at 78 ... Jessica Mitford, whose book "The American Way of Death" won her enormous popularity as an irreverent muckraker and witty polemicist, died yesterday at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 78.
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Jessica Mitford, the daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, was born in Burford, Oxfordshire, in 1917. The sister of Diana Mitford, Nancy Mitford and Unity Mitford, she was educated at home by her mother.
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Jessica Mitford was best known for her uproarious exposé of the; American death industry. But her greatest contribution may have been the joie de vivre she brought to a gloomy American left. ... ECCA MITFORD, taken off the stage at the age of 78 by cancer, had a voice so confident in its intonations that it...
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This is but one of the surprises in the story of Jessica Mitford, who wrote the best-selling exposé The American Way of Death from her adopted home in a quiet neighborhood of Oakland, California.
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The rebellious daughter in a famously eccentric British family, Jessica Mitford spent her life going against the grain. She married Robert Treuhaft, an American civil-rights and labor-activist lawyer, and settled with him in Oakland, California.
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