Thanks for that quote. Despite TW being a favourite author of mine, I had to look it up. Oddly enough it was written about the same time as I was having the same thought as a young teenager, although obviously not as eloquently expressed. I can even remember where I was & what I was doing when I thought it bc it's stuck with me. I didn't realise the 'The Milk Train....' was rewritten as 'Boom' Taylor/Burton film, which I enjoyed. I understand neither play or revised film were well received. Pity. Thanks again for the memory. I now need to watch the play & film again.

I could listen to her all day. My only concern is that people might think we all speak like that if we come from UK

@@georgealderson4424 don't worry george , i come from australia, so imagine how i feel.

@@tonywalsh5444 Haha. I wonder if people like JM comment about the way WE speak? I saw a clip once of someone saying that the Queen is a great mimic but I don't suppose we will ever see her on the stage. Blessings and peace

Curious. Can you explain all the attributes, described as *wonderful* and *amazing* from your point of view? If we wanted to emulate these fabulous qualities in our daughters, tell me how to begin?

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Indeed. I am quite jealous of you, and were I in your position, I’d really take a good listen to those walls! The house was up for sale some years ago, and I was able to look at the pictures from the estate agent, which was fun, but nothing like being there yourself, of course.

I often walk past Mill Cottage in Wycombe for that specific reason. Reading through their letter collection which is amazing.

I think it´s her most appealing trait, a very sharp and smart sense of humor, but a bit silly at times, I love it :)

Oh, so her communist dribble appealed to you? Sad. Very sad.

@@jessicanelson9545, I think the expression is ‘drivvel’ not dribble. Quite a difference in meaning there.

@@karensinclair4189 I think you are” know it all “correcting me for someone else’s comment.

It comes from the ambience of the upper class which she so detested.

It’s easy to mock your class while not giving up your wealth Nothing to stop her from rejecting her inheritance, yet none of them did

@@cheechalker8430 Why should they give up their inheritance? Only greed-driven people would even think that someone else might want to give up their inheritance.

Ruby Nibs isn’t that the whole point of socialism? Everyone is equal and everyone shares what they have? Wealth re-distribution? I don’t think anyone should give up their money under the guise of a system (socialism) that has never ever worked in the history of man. When these socialists start giving away their money then I will believe they believe what they are saying. It’s easy to be a socialist, as long as you don’t have to abide by any socialist principles.

@@anonymous20220 they're conflating bereft spirit with the material

​@@cheechalker8430 What you are talking about is communism. Politics can be demonstrated with a line where most politically ideologies are placed from right to left, with the ends being the most extremes (communism left to fascism /or 100% capitalism right). Socialism is after communism on that line, and it's not about 100% equality and sharing. The main difference is that under communism, most property and economic resources are owned and controlled by the state (rather than individual citizens); under socialism, all citizens share equally in economic resources as allocated by a democratically-elected government. People, especially in the US, use the words communism and socialism as if it is the same thing, it is not.

Other times, we need to go forward .

Umm--we have amazing people today--young and old. BTW this woman is not an actress.

Ninian MacMillan-Keith Well said & 100% true.

She is a communist. It is great for her because she is in the aristocracy, so, likely to gain money with as a communist. She disgusts me that she lives in America. We don’t like communists

Amen

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Yes

Agreed, though one must have a least favorite and Jessica is mine; though there are endearing characteristics there was a pretty vicious side, too. @@louisetaylor3643

She stretched the truth apparently in her book Hons and Rebels

Or didn't sully the family name like the Fascists. She was the brightest of the group.

She was no "brighter" than Nancy or Diana. And the 'family name' needed no redeeming, then or now. She plus each of her siblings represented 1/7 of the 'family name' as passed on by them. Your opinion is an expression of your politics -- all political opinions are not the same.@@charlieclark983

Jessica Mitford was a real woman of substance. Her book on death in America is amazing for its time, even for now.

Diana and Nancy overacted their accents. They were snobs.

L. J. Liburd, yes, I know. I made a comment to that effect about 4 years ago. :-)

I thought someone else might have pointed it out!

...by being from their class and living through their times and by coming from a large family I suppose

They got it from their parents.

nonsense you mean the dolts in hollywood?

Lol 2023. Wish it was 2003!

I think they were a rather sad family who could not settle into moderate politics

Simiformes How does an accent make you a decent person? For all you know she could be a stuck.up, self-centered bitch. The English class system is weird

@@teenherofilms No judgement is made about her decency or lack thereof. The original comment simply described how this is a perfect example of a British upper class accent of that generation. Frankly she and her accent are a pure joy to behold in this dreary age of ordinariness.

@@seerjc123 I know a lot of people who have upper class accents and they are far from a joy to behold. The UK class system is something beyond me, I live in Europe and we have nothing like that here.

@@teenherofilms All of Europe has a class system; Europe was built on the class system. You just haven't figured it out.

Her sister Diana's accent is even more top drawer.

Orange man bad. Bidenomics work..that's what she'd say. Like the rest of them. 30 genders. Trans kids. Shed support it all. Master subverters.

Well, if you want to have a long life, smoking a lot is not the best idea.

Cc

I think that is the common link between the Mitford sisters, all searching for something. Just read Jessica's first autobiography and just starting Debos. Their childhoods set them off on this quest for some meaning whatever the consequences.

Ridiculous.

No one would take any notice of her I imagine

Sad but true observation

Deborah was the least ‘controversial’, if I can put it that way. I think that accounts for it. They were close though - they were sisters.

I am not sure, but I think 1983 is the more likely answer. Don't ask me why. :-)

I imagine with a dialect such as hers, one moves among others who share it 😉

1983

A bit fat in the face

Pamela was very grounded

That's right! A client told me her aunt was made to do forced hard labour in Communist Ukraine in the 1970s- road mending. No choice. Do it or be executed. Hard reality. I usually ask my fellow traditionalists/Conservatives "Why do all the people in the big houses in Holmfirth vote Labour?" . But he just said " I don't know. I don't understand it."

You must read more, comment. You’re not as rounded on Jessica Mitford as you think.

Read up on Jessica Mitford before letting a posh accent prejudice you against a highly intelligent journalist and a lifelong member of the communist party who came up against the HUAC

Communist dictatorships is not the same as democratic communism.

@@sallydarley9812 because they're not selfish idiots?

...but did you become her cook

Of course , a servant. Despite her leftism , she still kept her aristocratic attitudes

@@briandelaney9710I’m not a leftist, but I don’t see what’s wrong with hiring a cook if you are.

They didn't have to work their way in, they were already there.

Debo is my favourite of the sisters, she's was a duchess that raised chickens and became a successful chatelaine. Nancy was witty but her wit had a mean-spiritedness to it. Diana is beautiful but at the same time, she is hard to read and her political leanings are hard to stomach. Pamela seemed like a static character amongst some very colourful sisters. Unity, well, she seemed to like to shock people and her attempted suicide was pitiable but really? The callousness she exhibited over getting her apartment in Germany when the tenants were forced to move out is just horrible. They were Jewish and all she said was, "I need to change these curtains. They are terrible." Then there is Decca who is witty but also very very caustic. She in many ways is the heroine of her own story but at the cost of warping her family into caricatures of themselves. The appeasement policy tore her family apart. Her parents separated and she never saw her father again despite him wanting to see her. When her sister Unity died, he hoped that he would see Decca come through the doors. How sad is that for a father?

@@absolutelyalice1754 I had no idea you knew the Mitford sisters so well. You were with Unity in Germany? You should write a book about it. Do add the part about )ews being moved out of Germany due to their being Communists who were, at the time, the enemy of Germany. Read rabble-rousers, too, but of course, you were there, so you know this. It's terribly important people learn what was really going on in Germany at that time, and telling the story through the eyes of your good friends, the Mitfords, would make for an amusing point of view.

@@rubynibs I've enjoyed your pithy rejoinders throughout the comment section.

All of us are the heroes/heroines in our own story. ??

It was Nancy who tried to keep Diana imprisoned, but I understand Jessica had the most spite for the rest of the family, particularly Diana.

I am not particularly technically minded. Are you referring to the aspect ratio? I put the video up the way I found it, and it is old. Even if I could, I would not have changed it. Content over format, my friend!

@@hoonnu54 Sorry my english may not be very good. I just wanted anybody who read my comment and lives/lived in England to answer me this, because I am curious (although I don't even live in Europe): Jessica says "...there's a huge strain of anti-semitism that runs through that class in England..." I wanted to know if that is still accurate nowdays in England. Because by the way she says it, I understand there was anti-semitism on the Brittish aristocracy before and during WW2 but also during the time this interview was made. I really hope I made myself clear here :(

@@Vicentemetalero she’s implying that the sentiments were still very much prevalent

Flipswop I agree. But keep in mind her bitterness towards her family had everything to do with WWII. Her family largely supported Hitler for a long time, and the war took brother Tom, her husband Edmond Romilly (leaving her a widow with an infant), and caused her sister Unity (the closest to her growing up, they spoke a secret twin like language) to shoot herself in the head at the outset of war leaving her mentally challenged for life. Jessica had a hard time accepting her family’s role in defending the enemy and cause of so much loss. Her opposite political reaction was a response. Her parents separated over it all too- her father couldn’t stomach the pro-Germany stuff after losing his son and daughter.

Cheryl Lynne: Jessica Mitford was British - hence a British communist. The British Communist Party did not "mass murder" anyone. Nor did it advocate such a thing. Also, the mass murder by communists in other countries was only realised long after it happened. You may have had advanced notice of it, but few others did. Jessica mitford comes over as anything but a hypocrite.

Flipswop Can you blame her?? Two of her sisters were Nazi sympathizers.

@@roberthutchins4297The Moscow Show Trials were occurring in the late-30s, but it is true none of the Mitfords had read Eli Wiesel or Solzhenitsyn when they formed their convictions.

Weird, I thought she mentioned going there with the family. Tea with the Fuhrer. Perhaps I misheard.

She read that from her mother's diary.

She didn't. She moved to the US

Good one!

Hunsuck-O- Rama well said!

I thought she might say she regretted her time living in the east end of London and losing her daughter to measles. I thought that was exactly what Pilger was alluding to when he asked that question!

@Cheryl Lynne Norman Bethune was.