![]() ![]() Back to the Classics Challenge 2014: Mid-Year Che.Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: Chapters One throug.I know that this wasn't uncommon among the upper-class British at the time, but it sometimes makes for some uncomfortable reading. There's also a lot of discussion as to whether or not some of the sisters were anti-Semitic. ![]() I will note that there's quite a focus on Unity's friendship with Hitler, which is really quite creepy. So, you can just imagine that this book is just packed with interesting characters and history, mostly set during my favorite period, the inter-war years in England. The youngest sister, Deborah, became Duchess of Devonshire. Romilly had fought against fascism in Spain and they were both Marxists. The next-to-last sister, Jessica (nicknamed "Decca") eloped with a distant cousin Edmond Romilly, a nephew by marriage to Winston Churchill. The eldest sister, Nancy, became a bestselling author the third sister Diana was a reowned Society beauty who married an heir to the Guinness fortune and then left him for Oswald Mosley, a right-wing politician who became an infamous Fascist (both were imprisoned without trial for three years during WWII) another sister, Unity, was one of Hitler's groupies and was rumoured to have been his lover. This is one of those stories that is truly stranger than fiction. ![]()
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