This slippery account from journalist Trethewey (Mothers of the Mind) seeks to reevaluate Sydney Bowles Mitford, the mother of the six “eccentric” Mitford sisters. Trethewey pushes back against ...

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The matriarch of the Mitford clan has been overshadowed by the glamorous daughters who caused her no small amount of grief.

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The book is a welcome corrective to the blame-mom-for-everything syndrome it would be easy to fall into with the Mitfords, ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The novelist Henry Miller once observed that “a book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you.” If ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...

A new book by Northeastern University professor Carla Kaplan, best known for her definitive biography of Zora Neale Hurston, entitled Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford, draws on ...

Carla Kaplan, the cover for "Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford," and Diane McWhorter Jessica Mitford, fifth of the six famous “Mitford Girls,” was brought up to marry well and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For one weekend only, hundreds of devoted readers gathered in Hudson, North Carolina, to celebrate Mitford, a fictional place with ...

For one weekend only, hundreds of devoted readers gathered in Hudson, North Carolina, to celebrate Mitford, a fictional place with a real sense of community. Jan Karon, the 88-year-old author behind ...