num_pages: 276
description: 'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline,' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's infatuation with Hitler, Debo's marriage to a duke and Jessica's passionate commitment to communism. Hons and Rebels is an enchanting and deeply absorbing memoir of an isolated and eccentric upbringing which conceals beneath its witty, light-hearted surface much wisdom and depth of feeling.
language: English
title: Hons and Rebels
titlecomplete: Hons and Rebels
characters: Nancy Mitford, Diana Mitford, Pamela Mitford, Unity Mitford, Deborah Mitford-Cavendish, Jessica Mitford
genres: Autobiography, War, Nonfiction, History, Classics, Memoir, Biography Memoir, 20th Century, British Literature, Biography
ratings_count: 4768
places: England
publisher: Phoenix