Jessica Mitford

Already hating this train after 0.1% of the journey I'm goung to adopt defence mechanism number 1: Sit on the floor and read Jessica Mitford

#fridayreads Jessica Mitford's Poison Penmanship, which the fab @NYRBclassics is reissuing.

The next step is to have at Mr. Jones with a thing called a trocar.

Man's long agony in a lift-shaft.

RT @Nancy_Mitford Excellent essay by @carynjames up on the @newsweek site about the new editions from @vintageanchor http://bit.ly/cjSrUU

@Nancy_Mitford Whenever one told you one's deepest ambitions it was only to be TEASED UNMERCIFULLY and laughed off face of earth.

@Nancy_Mitford Susan, we all know you've got no imagination, so I can see from yr bk that you are having an affair w a Frenchman. Are you?

My essay "Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers" from the July 1970 issue of @TheAtlantic http://bit.ly/cZSvgA

I don't expect we've ever needed to... RT: @unitymitford Ever stopped to think what it must be like when somebody else controls your life?

@KlaudiaWerfel41 Glad you think so!

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

@818pm well, we're publishing Jessica Mitford Poison Penmanship & letters between Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire—no Nancy plans

@trishweisman We're a family of neat tricksters.

@unitymitford Now say it in Boudledidge, dee droudled Boudle!

@RedScareBot Just in case you've lost track of me, dear, I'll be posting lots and lots for you to fill your dockets with #sonofabitch