Muv : the story of the Mitford girls' mother

Trethewey, Rachel2025

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Everyone knows about the six flamboyant Mitford girls but in fact there were seven remarkable women in the famous family - the seventh was 'Muv', 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 came from her. Sydney Redesdale was a divisive figure both among her daughters and subsequent biographers. Until their deaths, her girls were still squabbling over what she was really like, their differing views of her persisted for even longer than the political divides between them. Each daughter wanted to control the narrative and they wrote competing novels, memoirs and letters to vindicate their perspective. For Nancy and Jessica, she was a scapegoat, for Unity, Diana, Debo and Pam a saint.