Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother

The story of the "seventh Mitford woman," a long-overlooked figure in the Mitford canon—told in full for the first time.

Everyone knows about the six flamboyant Mitford girls but in fact there were seven remarkable women in the famous family—the seventh was "Muv," Lady Sydney Redesdale, the mother of the notorious sisters. Too often portrayed as different from them and outside the girl gang, she was really the original and much of her daughters’ strong will, self-confidence, and extremism ca...