Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a muckraker with what she admitted was a particularly strong “appetite for tracking and destroying the enemy,” Mitford excelled ...

Perhaps the least scandalous of then Mitford sisters, Deborah (or “Debo”) would grow up to become the Duchess of Devonshire and the chatelaine of Chatsworth House, which she managed to change from ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her ...

They were one of the most notorious families to ever live in Britain – and yet many people remain unfamiliar with the story of the Mitford sisters. Now, they're being brought to life in the new ...

The lyrics for the songs "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life," "The Way We Were," "Nice 'n' Easy," "You Must Believe in Spring," and "The Windmills of Your Mind" were written by the husband and ...

Jessica Mitford was a muckracking journalist and memoirist, radical activist and wit. Born to an English aristocratic family, she became a Communist and eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew to fight ...

"January 2000"--Title page verso. Overview: Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an expose of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When Time magazine named her America’s “Queen of the Muckrakers” in 1970, Jessica Mitford was delighted.

Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her best-known one, "The American Way Of Death," published in 1963. It revealed how the funeral ...