Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitfordwas an English author, journalist, civil rights activist and political campaigner, and was one of the Mitford sisters. She became an American citizen in 1944...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth11 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
summer growing-up spring
Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.
funeral industry
Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
sister-in-law want my-sister
I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
enemy important passing
Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
pain reassuring childbirth
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
call cars coffin folk folks haven luck people run shake stop streets students urgent walking william
Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a movie about a small-town folk hero. People come up to shake his hand, students run after him with urgent questions, old folks stop their cars to call out, 'Good luck Bill!' and 'Howdy, Reverend.