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| | Masterpiece Theatre Love in a Cold Climate Essays + Interviews The Mitford Sisters |
 | | The eldest of the seven children of David Mitford and Sydney Bowles, Nancy was born in London in 1904. | | | Rather boisterous as a teenager, <b>Unityb> tormented the family's governesses and was expelled after a brief stint at school. | | | When World War II came, <b>Unityb> was so appalled at the idea of her country being at war with Germany that she tried to commit suicide by shooting herself in the head. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/climate/ei_sisters.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Mitford, Nancy |
| | <b>Unityb> Mitford became a follower of Nazi (see National Socialism) leader Adolf Hitler and moved to Germany. | | | Deborah Mitford, the youngest sister, married the son of a duke and became the duchess of Devonshire. | | | Diana Mitford married British fascist leader Oswald Mosley. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701702267/Mitford_Nancy.html
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| | Masterpiece Theatre Love in a Cold Climate Links and Bibliography |
| | <b>Unityb> was conceived near Swastika, Ontario before the word had political connotations, and grew to be Hitler's great friend and confidante. | | | The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. | | | Diana was a family outcast, a divorceé who married her lover, Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, in Goebbel's house. |
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| | Mr E B Stamp at MI5 concurred with the assessment that <b>Unityb> did not pose a significant threat and that Pilot Officer Andrews had been "removed as far away as the limited extent of the British Isles permits". | | | Medical reports in Britain had confirmed that the pistol bullet <b>Unityb> had fired into her temple was lodged in the brain and had affected her concentration. | | | This friendship caused a certain amount of gossip in the village and Miss Mitford openly remarked amongst persons in the village that Pilot Officer Andrews was her lover and, although he was a married man with one child, he was going to marry her. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/27/nmitty27.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/27/ixhome.html
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| | Loving Hitler [<b>Unityb> Mitford -- excerpt from new biography] [Free Republic] |
| | <b>Unityb> was tall and not unattractive; she had her own little court of admirers, but nobody "stuck". | | | Their parents, Lord and Lady Redesdale - David Freeman Mitford and his wife Sydney - were honest, well-meaning, salt-of-the-earth, slightly eccentric, socially retiring minor aristocrats; thoroughly nice people who, because of their extraordinary daughters, were propelled unwillingly, blinking and unprepared, into an international spotlight. | | | <b>Unityb> was tall and not unattractive :she had the mental age of a 12-year-old, she needed to stand out, to draw attention to herself. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b92404e28b0.htm
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| | Chicklit Forums: The Mitford Industry |
| | Others include: "The House of Mitford" by Jonathon Guiness and Catherine Guiness; "Nancy Mitford: A Biography" by Selina Hastings; and "The Letters of Nancy Mitford", edited by Charlotte Mosley. | | | (He was married to Diana Mitford) It makes sense as Spode is the leader of the "black shorts," but I had never thought about it. | | | My opinion on the Mitford's should be obvious from my Nickname. |
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http://www.chicklit.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000528;p=0
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| | Telegraph News Lady Mosley |
| | <b>Unityb> Mitford finally succeeded in making Hitler's acquaintance in January 1935, and in March proudly introduced him to her sister. | | | Diana Freeman-Mitford was born on June 17 1910 into a family which her sister Nancy would immortalise in Love in a Cold Climate. | | | <b>Unityb> became enamoured of Hitler and shot herself at the outbreak of the war. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2003/08/13/db1301.xml
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| | garlandgraves: The Black/Mitford Connection |
| | <b>Unityb> Mitford, it was said later, was doomed by name and by birth--<b>Unityb> being the meaning of the Latin root of ‘fascism’; to add insult to injury she was coneived in Swastika, Ontario, and her parents gave her the unfortunate middle name of ‘Valkyrie’. | | | Fact the first: J.K. Rowling named her daughter after her hero, Jessica Mitford, a journalist, runner-away and all-round do-gooding Gryffindor, and has been known to own a copy of Jessica's memoirs Hons and Rebels. | | | Jessica & Nancy Mitford / Linda Radlett / Sirius Black |
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http://garlandgraves.livejournal.com/37692.html
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| | Diana Mitford |
| | Diana was of the fabled Mitford sisters, and with the exception of her suicidal sister, <b>Unityb>, the most bizarre. | | | I have been looking for a biography of Nancy Mitford for so long, and here it is finally, and by a friend of hers as well. | | | She had four children among whom are Irish preservationist Desmond Guinness the writer Jonathan (3rd Lord Moyne) and the president of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile the governing body of world motorsport Max Mosley. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Diana_Mitford
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| | Print Article: Mitford girl dies |
| | <b>Unityb> Mitford was an ardent Nazi sympathiser before the war and a friend of Hitler, whom she introduced to Diana. | | | Lady Diana Mosley, one of the famously unconventional Mitford sisters and widow of Britain's pre-war fascist party leader, has died at age 93. | | | Jessica Mitford became a communist and, after moving to the United States, a successful writer. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/08/13/1060588429959.html
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| | The strange case of the aristocrat, Hitler and the tiny Scottish island - [Sunday Herald] |
| | <b>Unityb> Valkyrie Mitford was born in 1914, the fourth daughter of Lord and Lady Redesford and sister of Diana Mitford, who wed the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. | | | Broadcaster and historian Lorn Macintyre’s forthcoming publication, The Broken Lyre, details <b>Unityb> Mitford’s life in Germany and in Scotland, where the famous Mitford sister lived out her final years on Inch Kenneth, a tiny isle off the West coast of Mull. | | | Her other sisters included Jessica, or Decca, Mitford who became an author and a Communist, and Nancy, a novelist and biographer. |
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http://www.sundayherald.com/50495
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| | SeniorNet: SeniorNet Readers' Guides |
| | Four of the Mitford Sisters became best-selling authors : Nancy, Diana, Jessica (known as Decca), and Deborah (Debo). | | | An excerpt from The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | | | A picture of Nancy Mitford from a German web page |
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http://www.seniornet.org/php/readerguide.php?GuideID=29&Version=0&Font=0
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books LRB essay Girls in pearls: the legendary Mitfords |
| | The infamous Mitfords - Diana the fascist, Decca the communist, <b>Unityb> the Nazi, Debo the duchess, Nancy the novelist and rural Pam - remain objects of fascination for biographers and historians. | | | The Mitford Girls: The biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary Lovell. | | | Buy Nancy Mitford: a memoir at a discount |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,623207,00.html
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| | BBC NEWS Magazine Nancy Mitford spied on sisters |
| | <b>Unityb> was also close to Hitler, but Mitford said she had "recanted on the subject of anti-semitism", and that "the motives for her suicide was in a sense patriotic, namely despair at the declaration of war between Germany and England, which Hitler personally promised her would never take place". | | | In a further file, Mitford speaks of her sister <b>Unityb>'s attempted suicide. | | | In a file named "Persons considered dangerous by Mrs Peter Rodd" (Nancy Mitford's married name), Diana is said to have expressed "the hope, in front of her governess and eldest son, that the British army would be successfully cut off and destroyed at Dunquerque". |
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| | Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Historic Places - The house with the Nazi flag |
| | <b>Unityb> Mitford, the self-acclaimed Nazi-loving daughter of the owners, Lord and Lady Redesdale, was hiding on this lonely island, sheltering from a scoulding press and an enraged public. | | | <b>Unityb> may have found peace, but her admission that her time in Germany was the happiest of her life is borne out by the traces of her that can still be found today in her former island home. | | | <b>Unityb>'s books on the life of Hitler line the bookshelves and her floral bed is still in the small bedroom. |
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| | Wilson's Blogmanac: Funlover Jessica Mitford sings The Beatles |
| | She was an adherent of communism (member of the Communist Party of the United States of America until 1958), despite her privileged background, and was the sister of well-known Hitler supporter <b>Unityb> Mitford. | | | Her other sisters were Nancy Mitford, the essayist and satirist, and Diana Mitford, who married the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. | | | She emigrated to the United States of America from England, after having run away with her cousin, Esmond Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill to join the Republican forces in Spain. |
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http://wilsonsalmanac.blogspot.com/2005/09/funlover-jessica-mitford-sings-beatles.html
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| | The magnificent Mitfords / Biography captures 100 years in the life of Britain's far-flung family of high-society misfits, movers and shakers |
| | The most haunting of them all is <b>Unityb> Mitford, the sister who moved to Germany in 1934, became obsessed with Hitler, joined his entourage and became its cherished mascot: the English-rose-cum-Nazi who was, no less, Churchill's blood relative. | | | Jessica Mitford lived in Oakland for many years, and her expose of this country's funeral industry, "The American Way of Death," was a runaway best-seller in 1963. | | | W.W. Britain's Mitford family -- Lord and Lady Redesdale and their seven children, the eldest of whom was born in 1904 -- comprised a dazzling cast of characters. |
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| | <b>Unityb> and Diana |
| | The younger Mitford girls were told that it was now unlikely that they would ever marry, because no respectable man would associate with a sister of a divorcee. | | | Then, visiting one of the Mitford homes, she found a poignant relic: still etched in the windowpanes were little swastikas -- and beneath each, a matching hammer-and-sickle. | | | She was concieved in a cabin in Northern Ontario, where her father was speculating on a gold mine, and the nearby town was called "Swastika." She was given the name <b>Unityb> because her parents hoped that the just-begun WWI would end peacefully. |
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| | Religious Roots: Nazi Partying |
| | Another sister, <b>Unityb>, was even more ardently pro-Nazi than Diana, but Tom Mitford, on the other hand, in spite of his extreme right-wing politics, joined the British army when war broke out between England and Germany, and served bravely, and died in Southeast Asia just before the end of the war. | | | Robert Byron and <b>Unityb> Mitford both wrote that the Oxford Group members telephoned both Diana Mosley and <b>Unityb> Mitford, dunning them for an invitation and introduction to Adolf Hitler, with the goal of "changing" him, and Diana and <b>Unityb> refused to help the Oxford Group. | | | In a biography of the ardent fascist <b>Unityb> Mitford (the sister of Lady Diana Mosley), we find this information: The newspaper reporter Michael Burn, who wrote for The Times (of London) and the Gloucester Citizen, went to the 1935 Nurember Nazi Party Day rally for a story, and met <b>Unityb> Mitford there, and... |
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| | The final interview of the book is with Thomas Bücher, <b>Unityb>'s shadowy producer, now become the leading pornographer of his generation. | | | From undergraduate drollery to the horrors of the gas chamber, <b>Unityb>'s vision of 20th-century politics is inconsolably bleak. | | | At one level, <b>Unityb> is a playful account of luvvies at work in a politically charged atmosphere. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5212154-99930,00.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: <b>Unityb> Mitford: A Quest (Phoenix Giants S.): Books |
| | Amazon.co.uk: <b>Unityb> Mitford: A Quest (Phoenix Giants S.): Books | | | Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford; Paperback ~ Nancy Mitford | | | A Talent to Annoy: Selected Journalism; Paperback ~ Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (Editor) |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family: Books |
| | A portrait of the Mitford sisters follows Jessica, a communist; Debo, the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy, a best-selling novelist; Diana, who was the most hated woman in England; and <b>Unityb>, who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler. | | | <b>Unityb> Mitford: A Quest (Phoenix Giants S.); Paperback ~ David Pryce-Jones | | | The Pursuit of Love; Paperback ~ Nancy Mitford |
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| | Find in a Library: <b>Unityb> Mitford : a quest |
| | Find in a Library: <b>Unityb> Mitford : a quest | | | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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| | <b>Unityb> Mitford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | <b>Unityb> Valkyrie Mitford (August 8, 1914 - May 28, 1948), was one of the noted Mitford sisters. | | | She became a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and a passionate though naïve supporter of National Socialism, along with her sister Diana Mitford, who married the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley. | | | In 1933, Mitford traveled to Nuremberg, Germany for a rally and met the man she had become obsessed with, Adolf Hitler. |
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| | Nancy Mitford |
| | Her remains were brought home to England and interred in the Swinbrook Churchyard, Oxfordshire, England with her youngest sister, <b>Unityb> Mitford (1914-1948). | | | Nancy Mitford was born November 28, 1904 in London, England, part of an aristocratic family. | | | She is one of the noted Mitford sisters, was an essayist in, and editor of, Noblesse Oblige[?] (1956), in which she helped to originate the famous 'U', or upper-class, and 'non-U' classification of linguistic usage and behavior. |
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| | MITFORD, <b>UNITYb> VALKYRIE (1914-1948) Intimate, personal friend of Adolf Hitler, and the daughter of Lord Redesdale. | | | MOSLEY, SIR OSWALD (1896-1970) British fascist leader married to <b>Unityb> Mitford's sister,. | | | MITFORD, DAVID (LORD REDESDALE) (1878-1958) Father of <b>Unityb> Mitford. |
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| | Morally handicapped by Brooke Allen |
| | <b>Unityb> was more than admiring: she was besotted, and from the spring of 1934 she spent most of her time in Germany, providing Diana and Tom Mitford, also a budding fascist, with a convenient home away from home. | | | Mosley’s notoriety was heightened by his marriage to Diana, the most beautiful of the beautiful Mitford sisters. | | | <b>Unityb> introduced Diana to Hitler in 1935, and for next four years the sisters were regularly seen in his company, by his side at every Parteitag, at every Bayreuth Festival, and at the 1936 Olympic Games. |
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