Irrepressible (59 page)

WWII: Battle of Britain; effect on Decca; end of; invasion of Russia; Japanese internment; lead-up to; liberation of Paris; Pearl Harbor bombing; post-war rationing in England; siege of
Stalingrad; Soviet alliance; U.S. fuel conservation; U.S. intervention

Yaddo

Yale

Ye Merrie England Village

Yippies

Young Communist League

Zellner, Bob

Copyright © 2010 by Leslie Brody. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

 

PERMISSIONS

The author is grateful to the following for kindly granting permission for copyright material to be
Sussman; Rare Books Room and Manuscript Library of the Ohio State University Libraries: The Jessica Mitford Collection; The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire for quotations from
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
and
Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford
, both edited by Charlotte Mosley, and passages from Nancy Mitford’s novels:
Noblesse Oblige
and
Don’t Tell Alfred
; Virginia Foster Durr II, executor of the Durr estate for letters and for the use of content and quotes from
Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr
, edited by Hollinger F. Barnard, and
Freedom Writer
by Patricia Sullivan; authorized quotations from filmed interviews included in the Jessica Mitford archive; Anthea Fursland for quotations from
Jessica Mitford: A Levinsonian Study of Mid-Life
, Berkeley, California: Wright Institute, 1990; “I am bound, and fast bound so / That from thee I cannot go / If I co’d, I wo’d not so,” Robert Herrick, “The Bracelet to Julia” from
The Poems of Robert Herrick
, edited, with a biographical introduction, by John Masefield, London: E. Grant Richards, 1906; “
No es sueño la vida
,” Federico Garcia Lorca, “
Ciudad sin sueño
,” in
Poet in New York
, translated from the Spanish by Pablo Medina and Mark Statman, New York: Grove Press, 2008; “Murmur a little sadly how love fled / And paced upon the mountains overhead / And hid his face amid a crowd of stars,” William Butler Yeats, “When You Are Old” from
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats,
Ware, Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994.

 

Photographs from the Mitford/Treuhaft family photo archive used with permission. Otherwise credits have been listed on the photo insert.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Brody, Leslie.

Irrepressible : the life and times of Jessica Mitford / by Leslie Brody. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-582-43855-9

1. Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996. 2. Women communists—United States—Biography. 3. Women journalists—United States—Biography. 4. Women radicals—United States—Biography. 5. Women civil rights workers—United States—Biography. 6. British Americans—Biography. 7. Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996—Family. I. Title. II. Title: Life and times of Jessica Mitford.

HX84.M55B76 2010

335.43092—dc22

[B]

2010017800

 

 

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