| Jessica Mitford AKA 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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