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Wait for me! : memoirs
- Title
- Wait for me! : memoirs / Deborah Mitford.
- Author
- Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of, 1920-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-7209 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xi, 345 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Her life would change utterly with his unexpected inheritance of the title and vast estates after the wartime death of his brother, who had married Kick Kennedy, the beloved sister of John F. Kennedy. Her friendship with that family would last through triumph and tragedy. This is a unique portrait of an age, and an unprecedented look at life inside one of the great aristocratic families of England.--From publisher description.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-7209
- ISBN
- 9780374207687
- 0374207682
- LCCN
- 2010028794
- OCLC
- 2010028794
- Author
- Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of, 1920-
- Title
- Wait for me! : memoirs / Deborah Mitford.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-7209