Fact: were it not for women like #IdaBWells-Barnett and #JessicaMitford, investigative journalism wouldn’t be what it is today … or, rather, what it was before cowardice triumphed over true grit in everything from mainstream media to self-avowed leftist & independent media. #WomensHistoryMonth
#JessicaMitford herself once joked to me about the "tired old industry of #Mitfordiana," so here's an addition to it. What strikes me most about this book, though, is that it was published by a #vanitypress -- yet reviewed in @nytimes.com?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...
Today's morning earworm from Susan's MixTapeMind.
#Music #MusicSky #Earworms #BlueskyMusic #MyDailyEarworm #FunnySongs
Don't miss #MayaAngelou and #JessicaMitford rocking a Cockney accent on this classic. PS, #RightSaidFred named themselves after the original song!
youtu.be/PHBWw6jRGy8?...
This just came out in the New Yorker. I join other fans of Decca's, #PeterSussman, #MimiPond, #LeslieBrody, and more in being glad to see the spotlight on #JessicaMitford. Thanks you #RachelSymes and #TheNewYorker.
[On the United States:] “A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.”
#JessicaMitford
Esmond Romilly & Jessica Mitford working behind a bar, Miami, 1940
Biopic Wishful Casting
Who's up for Jessica Mitford (1917~1996), an English author, movie starring Gemma Chan? lol
#JessicaMitford #MitfordSisters #HonsandRebels #GemmaChan #Biopic #WishfulCasting
#BookChallenge
Day 19 of 20
#HonsAndRebels by #JessicaMitford (1960)
My wife, Sue, loves this author. In a ploy to shut her up I decided to read this first instalment memoir. Actually, it's very good. What a career... and family.
Thank you @agentmancuso.bsky.social for setting the challenge.
Was Powell friends with the #Mitford family? #JessicaMitford #NancyMitford
#PaulRobeson, #EmmaGoldman, #IdaBWells, #MarxBrothers, #GaryWebb, #JessicaMitford are among my biggest heroes in addition to all the even better known leaders of civil, women’s, queer & workers rights movt’s. I am who I am bc they existed.
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
by #JessicaMitford
www.theguardian.com/books/2010/s...
[On the United States:] “A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.”
#JessicaMitford
Esmond Romilly & Jessica Mitford working behind a bar, Miami,1940
