The Mitford sisters: six aristocratic British siblings whose lives read like a novel - full of glamour, scandal, and extreme political divides. Born into privilege in the early twentieth century, the sisters became famous not as a group but as striking individuals - writers and socialites, biographers and essayists who together captured the maelstrom of the 1930's interwar era and left a legacy that still fascinates historians today. Jessica, who wrote Hons and Rebels and The American Way of Death, was a communist and human rights activist. Unity sympathised with the Nazis and worshipped Hitler. Nancy’s “Love in a Cold Climate”

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