Bibliograph

Wait for me!, memoirs, Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire

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Wait for me!, memoirs, Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wait for me!

Oclc number

613431947

Responsibility statement

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire

Sub title

memoirs

Summary

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Her life would change utterly with his unexpected inheritance of the title and vast estates after the wartime death of his brother, who had married Kick Kennedy, the beloved sister of John F. Kennedy. Her friendship with that family would last through triumph and tragedy. This is a unique portrait of an age, and an unprecedented look at life inside one of the great aristocratic families of England.--From publisher description

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