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001 2015464290
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005 20151208084452.0
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010 $a 2015464290
020 $a9781784970871$q(hardback)
020 $a1784970875$q(hardback)
020 $z9781784970888$q(ebook)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn927085039
040 $aAU@$beng$cAU@$erda$dOCLCO$dUAB$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
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050 00 $aDA566.9.A1$bT62 2015
100 1 $aThompson, Laura,$d1964-$eauthor.
245 10 $aTake six girls :$bthe lives of the Mitford sisters /$cLaura Thompson.
264 1 $aLondon :$bHead of Zeus,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $a388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they became prominent as 'bright young things' in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark - and very public - differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives - recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson - hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after the Second World War"--Book jacket.
600 10 $aMitford, Nancy,$d1904-1973.
600 10 $aMitford, Pamela,$d1907-1994.
600 10 $aMosley, Diana,$d1910-2003.
600 10 $aMitford, Unity,$d1914-1948.
600 10 $aMitford, Jessica,$d1917-1996.
600 10 $aDevonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish,$cDuchess of,$d1920-2014.
600 30 $aMitford family.
650 0 $aWomen authors, English$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aSisters$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$vBiography.