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Jessica Mitford had every reason to side with power and refused

In twentieth-century Britain, the Mitford name became entangled with the rise of European fascism. On October 6, 1936, the ...

She was the aristocrat who left her family, fought in the Spanish Civil War and was a through and through communist - the most maverick Mitford of all!

A new biography of Jessica Mitford portrays an upper class communist who fought for the poor - but travelled with 13 ...