In December 2007, Bright published an article in The New Statesman stating that following a previous article on Unity Mitford, he had received a phone call from a Ms Val Hann, a member of the public, offering new information on the story.

Mary Russell Mitford also wrote a drama from the story entitled " Inez de Castro ".

In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.

In the 20th century, the " Mitford sisters " — six daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and Sydney Bowles — became celebrated, and at times scandalous, figures caricatured, according to The Times journalist Ben Macintyre, as " Diana the Fascist, Jessica the Communist, Unity the Hitler-lover ; Nancy the Novelist ; Deborah the Duchess and Pamela the unobtrusive poultry connoisseur ".

The Mitford sisters and their brother grew up in an aristocratic country house with emotionally distant parents, as well as a large household with numerous servants ; this family situation was not unusual for its time.

A fictional family based on the Mitford sisters features prominently in author Jo Walton's novel Ha ' penny ; Viola Lark, one of the point-of-view characters, is one of the sisters, another is married to Himmler, and a third is a Communist spy.

At the outset of World War II, Romilly enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force ; Mitford was living in Washington D. C., and considered joining him once he was posted to England.

* Pryce-Jones, David ; Unity Mitford: A Quest ( W & N, 1995 ) ISBN 978-1-85799-370-7 ; Unity Mitford: An Enquiry into Her Life and the Frivolity of Evil ( Dial Press, 1977 ) ISBN 978-0-8037-8865-7

Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley ( née Freeman-Mitford ; 17 June 191011 August 2003 ) was one of Britain's noted Mitford sisters.

* Provided introduction and foreword to ; Nancy Mitford: A Memoir by Harold Acton ( 1975 )

* Collection of letters between the six Mitford sisters ; The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters ( 2007 )

Her bestselling Mitford series of novels is set in a small town based on Blowing Rock ; she calls the town " Mitford ".

The judges were Rex Armstrong, Attorney and Volunteer Counsel, ACLU of Oregon ; Jessica Mitford, author and social activist ; and Carl Jensen, Founder, Project Censored.

In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.

The news that his plane had gone missing in action was broken to his wife by Churchill personally ; Jessica Mitford took many months to accept that he had died.

Mitford is reported to have then visited the apartment to discuss her decoration and design plans, while the soon-to-be-dispossessed couple still sat in the kitchen crying.

On 1 December 2002, following the release of declassified documents ( including the diary of wartime MI5 head Guy Liddell ), investigative journalist Martin Bright published an article in The Observer that claimed Home Secretary John Anderson intervened to prevent Mitford being questioned on her return from Germany and that the shooting, which " has become part of the Mitford myth ," may have been invented to excuse this.

Mitford was an especially prolific and successful writer in a range of genres, from poetry to drama as well as the prose for which she has been best known.

Gottlieb has edited novels by John Cheever, Salman Rushdie, John Gardner, Len Deighton, John le Carré, Ray Bradbury, Elia Kazan, Margaret Drabble, Michael Crichton, Mordecai Richler and Toni Morrison, and non-fiction books by Barbara Tuchman, Jessica Mitford, Robert Caro, Antonia Fraser, Lauren Bacall, Liv Ullman, Sidney Poitier, John Lennon, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Bruno Bettelheim, Carl Schorske, and many others.

An edition ( 1840 ) of his Poematia has a memoir by John Mitford.

Mary Mitford has spoke of him as vainer than a peacock.

MI5 head Guy Liddell wrote in his diary: " Unity Mitford had been in close and intimate contact with the Führer and his supporters for several years, and was an ardent and open supporter of the Nazi regime.

The caller said that during the war, her aunt, Betty Norton, had run Hill View Cottage, a private maternity hospital in Oxford where Mitford had been a client.

Diana Mitford, the author's sister, had been romantically involved with Mosley since 1932.

Jessica Mitford suggested in more than one letter to her family that Romilly might have been the illegitimate son of Winston Churchill, stating that she thought her late husband had resembled him.

B. Mitford in Tales of Old Japan ( 1871 ) was considered authoritative.

Mitford threw herself into war work.

Through his work with unions and death benefits, Treuhaft became interested in the funeral industry and persuaded Mitford to write an investigative article on the subject.

But it was Edward Gibbon, with whom he was closely associated when they both were officers in the South Hampshire Militia, who suggested to Mitford the form which his work should take.

Having become a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1777, Mitford wrote A Treatise on the Pleadings in Suits in the Court of Chancery by English Bill, a work which was reprinted several times in England and America.

The work was one of the sources for the Dictionary of Americanisms, c. 1952, prepared under the direction of Mitford Mathews.

After some legal difficulties, Romilly and Mitford, both 19, married in Bayonne, France, on 18 May 1937.

His father was a wood-cutter employed in shaping bolts for shipbuilders, and the son followed the same occupation till his seventeenth year, when, having shown an aptitude for art by copying some miniatures, he was adopted by his father's landlord, William Mitford.

" A meeting was held at the Carlton Club shortly afterwards, consisting of Churchill, Wolff, Sir John Gorst, Percy Mitford, Colonel Fred Burnaby and some others, to whom were subsequently added Satchell Hopkins, J.

It is made up of many different buildings, some of those being hostels retained from the original Bulmershe College — including Mitford, Penn, Winchcombe and Blagrave — and some newly built on merger with the University, including Hollins and Huntley.

The Mitford family is a minor aristocratic English family that traces its origins in Northumberland back to the time of the Norman conquest.

Unity Valkyrie Mitford ( 8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948 ) was a member of the aristocratic Mitford family, tracing its origins in Northumberland back to the 11th century Norman settlement of England.

" At the age of five, Landon began attending Mrs Rowden's school at 22 Hans Place, which counted among its alumnae Mary Russell Mitford and Lady Caroline Lamb.

The Cochrane Christian Program opened its doors at Mitford Middle School in September 2007, offering kindergarten to grade 4.

Jessica Mitford attributed the journal's influence to its use of undercover sources.

Gray, attended by several of his friends, paid a visit to the young undergraduate in his college rooms, and as the poet rarely went outside his own college, his presence attracted great attention, and the details of the interview were afterwards communicated to Samuel Rogers, and printed by Mitford.