Rowling and Christopher Hitchens as great influences. Mitford and Hons and Rebels are cited by J.K. Read More First published in 1960, Jessica Mitfords autobiography is an account of the enclosed and eccentric childhood through which Nancy, Diana, Pam, Unity, Decca and Debo lived. sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Product Details Price 17.95 Publisher New York Review of Books Publish Date SeptemPages 284 Dimensions 5.22 X 8.1 X 0.69 inches 0. The Hons' Cupboard, where Debo and I spent much of our time, still has the same distinctive, stuffy smell and enchanting promise of complete privacy from the Grown-ups.' Jessica Mitford is the author of 'The American Way of Death' and has recently published a biography of Grace Darling entitled 'Grace had an English Heart'. Books by Jessica Mitford (Author of Hons and Rebels) Books by Jessica Mitford Jessica Mitford Average rating 4.07 9,176 ratings 923 reviews shelved 34,901 times Showing 26 distinct works. A family portrait, a tale of youthful folly and high-spirited adventure, a study in social history, a love story, Hons and Rebels is a delightful contribution to the autobiographers art. Hanging on the walls are framed pictures and poems done by Unity when she was quite small-queer, imaginative, interesting work, some on a tiny scale of microscopic detail, some huge and magnificent. They were put there by my sister Unity and myself when we were children. 'In the windows, still to be seen, are swastikas carved into the glass with a diamond ring, and for every swastika a carefully delineated hammer and sickle. Unity befriended Nazi leader Hitler, who praised her as an ideal of Aryan beauty. Jessica was a supporter of Communism and eloped with her second cousin, Esmond Romilly, to fight with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, and Diana grew up to marry Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. Jessica Mitford writes an entertaining memoir of a childhood and adolescence in a privileged and opinionated family of the British upper class. Hons and Rebels, originally published in the United States under the title Daughters and Rebels, is a 1960 autobiography by political activist Jessica Mitford, which describes her aristocratic childhood and the conflicts between her and her sisters Unity and Diana, who were ardent supporters of Nazism.

Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford