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The aristocratic Mitford sisters wrote about their dramatic lives in about 12,000 letters to each other over a span of 80 years. Many of those letters have been published in a new collection called The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley.

The Mitfords is available for purchase at amazon.com

Listen to Leonard’s recent interview with Jessica Mitford’s daughter Dinky Romilly