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The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters is a 2007 book of selected letters between the Mitford sisters.

The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters is a 2007 book of selected letters between the Mitford sisters. It contains letters exchanged between Nancy Mitford, Pamela Mitford, Diana Mitford, Unity Mitford, Jessica Mitford and Deborah Mitford between 1925 and 2003. An estimated five percent of letters between the six sisters were included in the 834 page publication. The book was published by HarperCollins.

Charlotte Mosley, Diana Mitford's daughter-in-law, has worked as a publisher and journalist.

The six Mitford sisters, born between 1904 and 1920 started writing to each other in their 20's and continued .

The six Mitford sisters, born between 1904 and 1920 started writing to each other in their 20's and continued throughout their lives. Four of I got this book because it sounded interesting. Not interesting like, "I want to read that," but interesting like "I should read that. The letters flow smoothly, with perhaps one or two large time lapses that make the reader wonder why no letters from a whole year made the cut.

The correspondence between the six Mitford sisters consists of some twelve thousand letters – over four million . As in many families, the Mitfords used a plethora of nicknames and often several different ones for the same person.

The correspondence between the six Mitford sisters consists of some twelve thousand letters – over four million words – of which little more than five per cent has been included in this volume. Out of the fifteen possible patterns of exchange between the sisters, there are only three gaps: no letters between Unity and Pamela have survived, and there are none from Unity to Deborah. While the origins of most of these are long forgotten, the roots of a few can be traced.

Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford’s daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak. The letters chronicle the social quirks and political upheavals of the twentieth century but also chart the stormy, enduring relationships between the uniquely gifted – and collectively notorious – Mitford sisters.

The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a. .

The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. Spanning the twentieth century, these magically vivid letters between the legendary Mitford sisters constitute not just a superb social and historical chronicle (what other family. More than 800 pages of letters provide an engrossing, deeply personal group portrait of six idiosyncratic sisters whose political views varied as much as the trajectories of their famous-often. The Mitfords: letters between six sisters.

Three Mitford sisters in 1932. From left: Unity, Diana and Nancy. Although the Mitfords’ letters refer to some world-shaking events, their irresistible appeal comes from the way they invite us into the closed family circle

Three Mitford sisters in 1932. In this age of blogs and celebutantes, the aristocratic, letter-writing Mitfords may seem snobbish, quaint, even kitschy. But to dismiss them as dusty relics would be to miss out on a great deal of eccentric charm, wit and historical resonance. Although the Mitfords’ letters refer to some world-shaking events, their irresistible appeal comes from the way they invite us into the closed family circle. This volume is so overflowing with nicknames and private jokes that it resembles a glittering novel about privileged sophisticates.

Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford’s . The Mitfords is a thrilling and moving, funny and serious book.

Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford’s daughter-in. Here is a story of a family, of loyalty, love, humour, tragedy and, at times, chilling deception, a tale that sometimes amuses and horrifies, but always fascinates.

The Mitfords: Six sisters who captured the maelstrom. Image caption Diana with her husband, the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. Jessica, known to friends and family as Decca, counteracted Unity's Nazism and became a communist

The Mitfords: Six sisters who captured the maelstrom. Jessica, known to friends and family as Decca, counteracted Unity's Nazism and became a communist. Eloping with her fellow communist cousin, Esmond Romilly, she ran off to fight the fascists during the Spanish Civil War. Shunning her aristocratic upbringing, she moved to the US, where she fought for civil rights and wrote bestselling books, including Hons & Rebels and The American Way of Death. She went on to become a late-blooming pop star, singing with her group Decca & The Dectones

The Mitford sisters first began to make headlines in the late 1920s and . The age gap between the Mitford children meant that they formed almost two separate generations.

The Mitford sisters first began to make headlines in the late 1920s and have rarely been out of the news since. Between them they were close to many key figures of the last century. Unlike many books about the Mitford family that have focused on the years when the sisters’ exploits intersected with historical events, their letters cover their whole lives, revealing how triumphs and tragedies wore down their youthful fanaticism. In 1925, the year that opens this collection of letters, the older children, Nancy, Pamela, Tom and Diana, ranged between the ages of twenty-one and fifteen.