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Jessica Mitford

Jessica MitfordAKA Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford

Born: 11-Sep-1917
Birthplace: Gloucestershire, England
Died: 23-Jul-1996
Location of death: Oakland, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The American Way of Death

Father: David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (b. 1878, d. 1958)
Mother: Sydney Bowles
Sister: Nancy Mitford (novelist, b. 28-Nov-1904, d. 30-Jan-1973)
Sister: Pamela Mitford (b. 25-Nov-1907, d. 12-Apr-1994)
Brother: Thomas Mitford (b. 2-Jan-1909, d. 30-Mar-1945 kia)
Sister: Diana Mitford (b. 17-Jun-1910, m. Oswald Mosley, d. 11-Aug-2003)
Sister: Unity Valkyrie Mitford (b. 8-Aug-1914, d. 28-May-1948)
Sister: Deborah Mitford (b. 31-Mar-1920, m. Andrew Cavendish)
Husband: Edmond Romilly (nephew of Winston Churchill, m. 1937, d. 1942 kia, one daughter)
Daughter: Constancia
Husband: Robert Edward Treuhaft (lawyer, m. 1943, two sons)
Son: (d. 1955 automobile accident)
Son: Benjamin Treuhaf

    Naturalized US Citizen 1944
    Communist Party (resigned 1958)

Author of books:
Hons and Rebels (1960, memoir)
The American Way of Death (1963, nonfiction)
The Trial of Dr. Spock (1969, nonfiction)
Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business (1973, nonfiction)
A Fine Old Conflict (1977, memoir)
The Making of a Muckraker (1979)
Poison Penmanship: The Art of Muckraking (1979)
Grace Had an English Heart (1988)
The American Way of Birth (1992, nonfiction)
The American Way of Death Revisited (1998)


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