Jessica Mitford

NM was born into an upper-class English family and grew up in the Cotswolds. Much of her youth was spent living the privileged life of a young woman of her background. From the time that...

Formative early reading included Richard Scarry and Kenneth Grahame 's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton as a young child but acquired a taste for her later...

Jessica , the sister who followed Unity in age, eloped in her teens with a still younger cousin who was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Nancy and her husband were despatched as...

Joanne Rowling bore her first child, a daughter, in Porto and named her Jessica (after Jessica Mitford , she says).

At the end of 1968 (not long before Palewski 's marriage), NM began to suffer from intense pain in her back and legs, which continued until her death; the symptoms were finally diagnosed as Hodgkin's...