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Rosemary Hill: Jessica Mitford’s Handbag, 5 February 2026

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford 
by Carla Kaplan.
Hurst, 581 pp., £27.50, December 2025, 978 1 80526 537 5
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... funny’; her sisters, without exception, hated it. The growing numbers of Mitfordists took sides.Carla Kaplan’s Troublemaker is the first scholarly biography of Jessica, and it is both opportune and persuasive. At any given moment, the most obscure historical period is the one that is still within living memory. There are too many vested interests at ...

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