Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford was an English author, journalist and political campaigner, who was one of the Mitford sisters. She gained American citizenship in later life.
One of "The Mitford Girls", she is sister of: Nancy Mitford (1904-1973), Pamela Mitford (1907-1994), Tom Mitford (1909-1945), Lady Diana Mosley (widow of Sir Oswald Mosley ) (1910-2003), Unity Mitford (friend of Adolf Hitler ) (1914-1948) and Deborah Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire) (1920-2014).
Her first husband, Esmond Romilly, was declared missing in action on 9th November 1941, after his plane disappeared on the way back from a bombing mission over Nazi Germany.
Lived most of her adult life in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1944.
Had four children, two of whom did not survive to adulthood. During her first marriage, to Esmond Romilly, she gave birth to a daughter named Julia Decca Romilly in December 1937, however, Julia died just five months later after contracting measles. On 9th February 1941, around two years after moving to the United States with Romilly, she gave birth to a second daughter, naming her Constancia Romilly. Following the death of Romilly, she remarried and gave birth to a son named Nicholas in 1944 and another son, Benjamin, in 1947. Nicholas was killed in 1955 when he was hit by a bus.
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth. .
