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Troublemaker the fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford

"This biography of Jessica Mitford, fifth of the six famous Mitford Girls, tells the wild and unlikely story of a British aristocrat who became an American Communist, bringing her astonishing self-transformation to life with a riveting, often hilarious, account of trading wealth and status for a lif...

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Main Author: Kaplan, Carla (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mitford, Jessica, > 1917-1996
Women communists > United States > Biography.
Women journalists > United States > Biography.
Women radicals > United States > Biography.
British Americans > Biography.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. God careth for us
  • Prelude. The gooey parts
  • The feudal remnant and the fem
  • That dread place
  • It will all be terrific fun
  • Let's go to America
  • America is such heaven
  • A prolonged dull... ache
  • A concrete upper lip
  • The new life
  • A serious person
  • A terrific hater
  • A most un-duchessy life
  • Going home again
  • Action man
  • The making of a muckraker
  • Do something
  • Do admit
  • A bit of a black cloud
  • Writing about the dead
  • Toddling towards the end.

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