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Mitford, Jessica, Hons and Rebels, Phoenix, 2003 (first published 1960). Mildly critical of her family’s political sympathies, it was still authorised by all the surviving members of the family. Thus it contains few surprises and many omissions.
Mosley, Charlotte (ed.), The Mitfords, Letters Between Six Sisters, Fourth Estate, 2007. Unsurprising gaps in the letters, particularly those from Unity during her period in Germany.
Murphy, Sophie, The Mitford Family Album, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1985 (out of print). Murphy is the younger daughter of Deborah Mitford and the 11th Duke of Devonshire. She not only mentions Unity’s interest in SS officers but also names Eric Widemann, a ‘part-time’ SS officer, as Unity’s steady boyfriend for several years. She also mentions one of Hitler’s adjutants, Stadelmann, as another of her lovers.
Petropoulos, Jonathan, Royals and the Reich, OUP, 2006.
Pryce-Jones, David, Unity Mitford – A Quest, Weidenfeld, 1976 (new edition 1995). The only other biography of Unity. Apparently due to his family connections with the Mitfords, Pryce-Jones compromised himself by admitting to having failed to include certain details that he believed, with admirable consideration capable of ‘causing distress or embarrassment’. The surviving Mitfords were still upset by the book, which is now out of print.
Pugh, Martin, Hurrah for the Blackshirts, Pimlico, 2005.
Theweleit, Klaus, Male Fantasies, Polity Press, 1977.
SOURCES
Sources include my mother, who gained intimate knowledge of the Mitfords’ ‘goings-on’ while her father was practising as a doctor in Burford; my friend Baroness Gaby Bentinck whose German industrialist family, the Thyssens, owned Rechnitz Castle, next door to Almasy Castle where Unity spent a great deal of time with her aristocratic Austrian Nazi lover. Gaby also married a Dutch diplomat called Baron Adolphe Bentinck, whose ambassadorial friends passed on yet more details to both her and her companion, Marie-France Railey. My grandmother, Milly Howard-Brown (first married to Frederick Litchfield, and remarried a Jewish Hungarian playboy who also went under the name Count von Schossberger), was also witness to Unity’s extraordinary behaviour by her involvement with the Almasy crowd in pre-war Vienna, Munich and Venice. She spent the war years in South Africa, returning to spend the rest of her life in Nice, on the Cote d’Azure; every August being spent in England.
NOTES
1 Dawn of the Daughters of Albion 1264–1906
1 Guinness, Jonathan, The House of Mitford, Phoenix, 1984.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid.
8 Jennings, Charles, Them and Us, The History Press, 2007.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Pugh, Martin, Hurrah for the Blackshirts, Pimlico, 2005.
16 Metapedia, 2012: www.metapedia.org.
17 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
2 The ‘Golden’ Years 1904–18
1 Lovell, Mary S., The Mitford Girls, Abacus, 2001.
2 Guinness, Jonathan, The House of Mitford, Phoenix, 1984.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Petropoulos, Jonathan, Royals and the Reich, OUP, 2006.
7 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
3 Fascism and Fantasy 1918–30
1 Guinness, Jonathan, The House of Mitford, Phoenix, 1984.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Jennings, Charles, Them and Us, The History Press, 2007.
7 Devonshire, Deborah, Wait for Me! John Murray, 2010.
8 Petropoulos, Jonathan, Royals and the Reich, OUP, 2006.
9 Finestone, Jeffrey, The Last Courts of Europe, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1981.
10 Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich.
11 Pugh, Martin, Hurrah for the Blackshirts, Pimlico, 2005.
12 Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich.
13 Laqueur, Walter, Weimar, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976.
14 Lovell, Mary S., The Mitford Girls, Abacus, 2001.
15 Ibid.
16 Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich, 2006.
17 Theweleit, Klaus, Male Fantasies, Polity Press, 1977.
18 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
23 Ibid.
24 Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich.
25 Jennings, Them and Us.
26 Ibid.
27 de Courcy, Anne, Diana Mosley, Chatto and Windus, 2003.
28 Pugh, Hurrah for the Blackshirts.
29 Ibid.
30 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
35 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
36 Ibid.
37 Jennings, Them and Us.
38 Ibid.
39 Manning, Frederic, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Leonaur Ltd, 2007.
40 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
41 Pryce-Jones, David, Unity Mitford, Weidenfeld, 1976.
42 Ibid.
43 Ibid.
44 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 Ibid.
50 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
51 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
52 Ibid.
4 Dancing on the Edge 1930–34
1 Jennings, Charles, Them and Us, 2007.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 de Courcy, Anne, Diana Mosley, Chatto and Windus, 2003.
5 Craig, Gordon A., Germany 1866–1945, Oxford Paperbacks, 1978.
6 Mitford, Jessica, Hons and Rebels, Phoenix, 2003.
7 Guinness, Jonathan, The House of Mitford, Phoenix, 1984.
8 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
9 Ibid.
10 Petropoulos, Jonathan, Royals and the Reich, OUP, 2006.
11 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
12 Action, 1931.
13 Pugh, Martin, Hurrah for the Blackshirts, Pimlico, 2005.
14 Laqueur, Walter, Weimar, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974.
15 Pugh, Hurrah for the Blackshirts.
16 Fest, Joachim C., Hitler, Vintage, 1974.
17 Koshar, Rudy, German Travel Culture, Berg Publishers, 2000.
18 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
19 Ibid.
20 Mosley, Oswald, The Greater Britain, Black House Publishing Ltd (2012 edn), 1932.
21 Mitford, Hons and Rebels.
22 Lovell, Mary S., The Mitford Girls, Abacus, 2001.
23 The Daily Express, 1932.
24 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
25 Ibid.
26 Pryce-Jones, David, Unity Mitford, Weidenfeld, 1976.
27 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
28 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Jennings, Them and Us.
32 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
33 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
34 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
35 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid.
38 Ibid.
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.
45 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
46 Pryce-Jones
, Unity Mitford.
5 Bavarian Rhapsody 1934–36
1 Guinness, Jonathan, The House of Mitford, Phoenix, 1984.
2 Pryce-Jones, David, Unity Mitford, Weidenfeld, 1976.
3 de Courcy, Anne, Diana Mosley, Chatto and Windus, 2003.
4 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Mosley, Charlotte (ed.), The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, Fourth Estate, 2007.
8 Mitford, Jessica, Hons and Rebels, Phoenix, 2003.
9 Ibid.
10 Lovell, Mary S., The Mitford Girls, Abacus, 2001.
11 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
12 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
13 Theweleit, Klaus, Male Fantasies, Polity Press, 1987.
14 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
15 de Courcy, Diana Mitford.
16 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
17 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
18 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
19 Ibid.
20 Williamson, Henny, The Phoenix Generation, Faber and Faber, 2011.
21 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
22 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
23 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
24 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
28 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
32 Ibid.
33 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
34 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
35 Ibid.
36 de Courcy, Diana Mosley.
37 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
38 Petropoulos, Jonathan, Royals and the Reich, OUP, 2006.
39 Pugh, Martin, Hurrah for the Blackshirts, Pimlico, 2005.
40 Channon, Chips, Chips, Phoenix, 1967.
41 Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich.
6 The Great Affair 1936–38
1 Mitford, Jessica, Hons and Rebels, Phoenix, 2003.
2 Guinness, Jonathan, The House of Mitford, Phoenix, 1984.
3 Pryce-Jones, David, Unity Mitford, Weidenfeld, 1976.
4 Lovell, Mary S., The Mitford Girls, Abacus, 2001.
5 Ibid.
6 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
7 David Pryce-Jones. Unity Mitford. 1976.
7 Ride of the Valkyrie 1938–39
1 Pryce-Jones, David, Unity Mitford, Weidenfeld, 1976.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Guinness, Jonathan, The House of Mitford, Phoenix, 1984.
5 Lovell, Mary S., The Mitford Girls, Abacus, 2001.
6 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
7 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
8 Guinness, The House of Mitford.
8 The Next Great Adventure 1939–48
1 Guinness, Jonathan, The House of Mitford, Phoenix, 1984.
2 Pryce-Jones, David, Unity Mitford, Weidenfeld, 1976.
3 Ibid.
4 de Courcy, Anne, Diana Mosley, Chatto and Windus, 2003.
5 Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford.
6 Hastings, Selina, Nancy Mitford, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1985.
7 Lovell, Mary S., The Mitford Girls, Abacus, 2001.
8 Ibid.
9 Mosley, Charlotte (ed.), The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, Fourth Estate, 2007.
10 Lovell, The Mitford Girls.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
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