Jessica mitford biography
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Jessica mitford biography
Mitford, Jessica
Born 11 September 1917, Batsford Mansion, Gloucestershire, England; died 23 July 1996
Daughter of David and Sydney Bowles Mitford; married Esmond Romilly, 1936; Robert E.
Truehaft, 1943
Jessica Mitford was the daughter of the second baron of Redesdale. Her eccentric siblings include Nancy, the biographer; Diana, the wife of fascist Oswald Mosley; and Unity, disciple of Hitler. After receiving a private education at home, Mitford ran away with and married her second cousin, Esmond Romilly, in 1936 to assist the Loyalist cause in Spain.
They worked briefly as journalists before returning to England, where Mitford was a market researcher for an advertising agency. Mitford and her husband emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, where each took odd jobs while traveling along the Eastern seaboard.
Mitford worked in Washington, D.C., for two years in the Office of Price Administration after Romilly was killed in action during World War II.
She married a lawyer in 1943,