The English writer recalls her often humorous experiences growing up in the twenties and thirties with her brother and five sisters

Daughters and rebels: An autobiography

Literature & Fiction

MITFORD, JESSICA

Poetry

First Owl Book

Decca: the letters of Jessica Mitford

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

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The trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr, Michael Goodman and Marcus Raskin

Macdonald Co.

Mitford's brave look at the funeral business, her attack on the Famous Writers School, and her war against a California University that insisted on fingerprinting her are accompanied by her running commentary on the strategies of muckraking journalism

Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking

History

Americas

Noonday Pr

Mitford, Jessica, Kind &amp; Usual Punishment: The Prison Business

Kind and Usual Punishment, the Prison Business

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973

Mitford's brave look at the funeral business, her attack on the Famous Writers School, her war against a California university that insisted on fingerprinting her, and other examples of her assaults on chicanery are accompanied by her running commentary on the strategies of muckraking journalism

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Alfred.A. Knopf

Biography of Philip Toynbee. From Wikipedia: "Theodore Philip Toynbee (25 June 1916 - 15 June 1981) was a British writer and communist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called Pantaloon, a work in several volumes, only some of which are published. He also wrote memoirs of the 1930s, and reviews and literary criticism, the latter mainly via his employment with The Observer newspaper. He was born in Oxford; his father was the historian Arnold J. Toynbee, and his maternal grandfather was Gilbert Murray. He was educated at Rugby School, where he became rebellious, reacting against the public school system. Inspired by the example of Esmond Romilly, later a friend, he ran away, returned shortly and was expelled. He later wrote a memoir of Romilly, and Jasper Ridley (1913-1944), entitled Friends Apart. Through Romilly, Toynbee met Jessica Mitford, who became a close friend......."

Faces of Philip: A memoir of Philip Toynbee

KNOPF

A candid examination of American prison practices is based on the author's extensive research and workshop experiences as an inmate. Bibliogs

Kind and usual punishment

Vintage

The famous, once-notorious, still-controversial writer and political activist chronicles her girlhood in England, her years with the American Communist Party, and her latter-day adventures as America's premier muckraker

A Fine Old Conflict

Random House, Inc.

Poison penmanship: The gentle art of muckraking

Vintage Books

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