Mitford’s book is billed as her memoirs, and it lives up to that old-fashioned term: an autobiography by a woman of note, writing for posterity rather than bestsellerdom. Rowling named her daughter, Jessica, after a Mitford.) It is onto this crowded stage that the youngest and only surviving Mitford sibling, Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, enters with her own version of events in the aptly titled Wait for Me! (Picador, $18). Numerous memoirs, published letters and semi-autobiographical novels have helped fuel the Mitford mystique. Dubbed by Vogue as “ the most spectacular sister act of the twentieth century,” this sorority of beautiful and talented British aristocrats stirred controversy with their writings, politics and bedfellows. The six Mitford sisters have kept tabloids and biographers busy for decades.
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