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 ...

In the 1930s, an aristocratic family in the U.K. became the subject of society pages because of its six sisters, who followed widely divergent paths. The Mitford sisters were Nancy, Pam, Diana, Unity, ...

One of the first things that struck Carla Kaplan about Jessica Mitford was her voice — not in speaking but on the page. “She has one of the most recognizable voices in the history of English writing.

The six British sisters are the subject of a new Britbox series. In 1989, Jessica Mitford talked with Terry Gross about her relationship with the Communist Party and her book about the death industry.

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 ...

The six British sisters are the subject of a new Britbox series. In 1989, Jessica Mitford talked with Terry Gross about her relationship with the Communist Party and her book about the death industry.