Barbara Cooke receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is a Research Associate on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, ...

But the recent publication of Debo Mitford's Wait for Me! (she was the only sister not yet to have written her memoirs) has made me long to get closer to the stories. Nancy's novels, Decca's letters ...

Carla Kaplan captures the subversiveness and strength of the woman who rejected fascism and overcame personal tragedy ...

For all that she was the business brains behind the blooming of Chatsworth – particularly the farm shop, one of the most successful in Britain – Debo Mitford’s passion was chickens. She counted them ...

Is there any greater example of the Problematic Fave than the Mitford sisters? They were posh, gossipy, fabulous, stylish and politically extreme. Were a couple of them – let’s just say it – ...

For once, the title doesn’t oversell it — at least, not when it stays true to the source material. Outrageous lives up to its name, diving into the infamous and sensational lives of the Mitford ...

When Jessica Mitford died in 1996 she left her postman £5,000. After a lifetime of letter writing, the socialite knew she had kept him busier than most. The 12,000 letters sent between the Mitford ...