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The Mitford sisters

June 2024

  • Backstage at Erdem’s spring/summer ‘24 show which featured dresses made from mid-19th century curtains from Chatsworth House archives

    Cut from a different cloth: don’t be fooled by fashion’s obsession with upper-class wardrobes

  • Duchess of Devonshire standing in garden surrounded by white flowers

    A love letter to ‘Debo’: Erdem exhibition celebrates Duchess of Devonshire’s style

May 2021

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    There’s nothing guilty about the pleasure I get from TV shows by women, for women

    Hadley Freeman
    Male reactions to Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit Of Love aren’t just about sexism. They’re also about fear
  • Lily James as Linda and Emily Beecham as Fanny in the BBC’s The Pursuit of Love.

    Feathers, organza and unironed pyjamas: why fashion can’t get enough of the Mitford mythology

    With a new adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love on our screens, the peculiarly Mitfordian combination of ballgowns and homemade knits look appealing again
  • Lily James as Linda and Emily Beecham as Fanny in The Pursuit Of Love.

    TV review
    The Pursuit of Love review – absolutely glorious

    Emily Mortimer’s immaculate adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s bestseller about the madcap Radlett family is an instant classic. What a magnificent treat to tuck into

March 2017

  • Chatsworth House fashion

    Chatsworth House hosts fashion exhibition sponsored by Gucci

    Derbyshire estate stakes its claim to be the most fashionable house in England with a show spanning five centuries of design and decadence

March 2016

  • The Duchess of Devonshire

    The Duchess of Devonshire – fashion royalty who loved Elvis

    As an auction of her possessions takes place, we assess why Debo was undoubtedly the coolest of the Mitford sisters

January 2016

  • The Duchess of Devonshire photographed by Cecil Beaton in December 1949.

    Elvis-themed phone and hen tureens among last Mitford sister's belongings to be sold

    Pre-publication copy of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited among possessions of Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, to be auctioned in March

October 2015

  • the mitford sisters

    Take Six Girls by Laura Thompson review – the Mitfords and their myths

    Laura Thompson tells the story of the six Mitford sisters with particular insight and intellgence

October 2014

  • Funeral Of The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire

    Duchess of Devonshire is laid to rest at Chatsworth House

    Last of the Mitford sisters is buried amid royalty, ranks of servants and the strains of Elvis Presley

September 2014

  • Hadley Freeman

    There is more to the Mitfords than Hitler and the high life

    Hadley Freeman
  • Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire

    Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the last Mitford sister, dies aged 94

  • The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire in 2008.

    The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire obituary

  • The Duchess of Devonshire

    The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot'

June 2014

  • Jessica Mitford and husband Bob Treuhaft, portrait by Jane Bown

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 13 June 1964: Jessica Mitford and the wages of death

    Originally published in the Guardian on 13 June 1964: The American death industry may seem an odd fit for one of the Mitford sisters but 'Decca' has been rebelling against her privileged upbringing all her life

January 2014

  • Mitford Sisters

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 4 January 1940: Unity Mitford arrives at Folkestone

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 4 January 1940: Unity, one of the feted Mitford sisters and a Hitler sympathiser, shot herself in an attempted suicide when war was declared

December 2013

  • Three of the Mitford sisters

    Comfort reading
    Love in a Cold Climate: still sparkling, despite its age

    Moira Redmond: Nancy Mitford's novel offers a funny and subversive take on the self-assurance of a 1940s aristocratic family. Each reread uncovers new details, and uses a sharp wit to examine love, attraction and ageing

October 2013

  • archivejessicamitford

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 5 October 1973: The Hon Jessica rebels against oath

    Originally published in the Guardian on 5 October 1973: The distinguished visiting professor was Miss Jessica Mitford, the Honourable rebel and best-selling muckracker

April 2013

  • Betty White … more than geriatric self-mockery.

    Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy

    They're funny and passionate. One of them can even rock a pastel pantsuit. Hadley Freeman hails her female heroes whose accomplishments deserve some serious respect

March 2013

  • The Union flag

    Rereading
    Will Self walks through Britain's flag-waving heartlands

    In the wake of the Eastleigh byelection, Will Self issues a warning that to the right of Ukip lies familiar dangerous territory

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