Wait for Me!: Memoirs ebook

by Deborah Mitford,Charlotte Mosley

Deborah Mitford Charlotte Mosley Historical English

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Deborah's effervescent memoir Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood of six daughters and one son that included the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote, when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl. Her life changed utterly with his unexpected inheritance of the title and vast estates after the wartime death of his brother, who had married "Kick" Kennedy, the beloved sister of John F. Kennedy.

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Charlotte Mosley, Deborah Mitford's daughter-in-law, has worked as a publisher and journalist.

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire; with Charlotte Mosley. Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with her sister Unity and Adolf Hitler in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Written with intense warmth, charm, and perception, Wait for Me! is a unique portrait of an age of tumult, splendor, and change. Charlotte Mosley, Deborah Mitford's daughter-in-law, has worked as a publisher and journalist.

I reached page 334 of her memoirs before those unexpected revelations .

I reached page 334 of her memoirs before those unexpected revelations, but was already unwillingly captivated by this extraordinary woman, admits BEL MOONEY. The book’s title reminds us that the youngest Mitford girl was always going to be outraced by her older siblings, two of whom (Nancy and Jessica) gained writing fame with which she doesn’t hope to compete. The Mitford sisters have already generated a mini-publishing industry, and for good reason.

Deborahs effervescent memoir Wait for Me chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Her life changed utterly with his unexpected inheritance of the title and vast estates after the wartime death of his brother, who had married Kick Kennedy, the beloved sister of John F.

Wait For Me! Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister. Helen Marchant, my secretary. and my old friends Richard Garnett and Tristram Holland. who gave me the confidence to keep trying. List of Illustrations. First published in Great Britain in 2010 by John Murray (Publishers). An Hachette UK Company. Note on Family Names.

The youngest of seven (six girls and a boy), Deborah "Debo" Devonshire, née Mitford, was brought up in a family so bizarre that her recollections in this memoir can only exist on a par with each other: only someone with her upbringing could mention her sister Unity's first meeting with Hitler and her own arrival at a boarding-school that "smelt strongly of lino, girls an.

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy. Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with her sister Unity and Adolf Hitler in 1937, to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish, the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Written with intense warmth, charm, and perception, Wait for Me! is a unique portrait of an age of tumult, splendor, and change. "Touching . . . moving . . . [and] compelling as a portrait of a vanishing world" (The Wall Street Journal).

Domarivip

Debo, as she was called, was a decent human being in the midst of the aristocracy and Chatsworth, the house haunted by Georgiana, flamboyant gambler and member of a menage a trots. She was the youngest of the Mitford sisters, who ranged from Nazis to Stalinists. Their beauty seemed to entitle them to extremes while England burned. Debo worked tirelessly to maintain and restore Chatsworth. She dealt with her alcoholic husband and raised a family. She had many friends, including JFK, whose inauguration she attended. The book is not a must read. But it isn honest and clear description of a world most of us will never see...

Hunaya

Ah, the Mitford girls! Has there ever been a more glamorous, diverse, brainy, energetic, notorious family? Always fascinating to read about, but I think Debo, otherwise known as the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, was the most interesting of all.

Born into Edwardian aristocracy, home schooled for the most part, her life extended from the heyday of the British Empire, the calm between the two World Wars, the involvement with Hitler by two of her sisters, the glitter of weddings, inaugurations and coronations, as well as state funerals on two continents. Through it all though, Debo remained practical, pragmatic, and clear-eyed.

Wait For Me is an enchanting memoir. While the glamorous elements are fun to read (the Kennedys were her in-laws), it's the account of her role in saving Chatsworth that engenders the most admiration and respect. She doesn't gloss over mistakes, missteps, and difficulties. She pitched in wherever she was needed, worried, adapted, and moved forward. There are lessons there for all of us.

Highly recommended.

Nuadador

If you have any interest in British life - the aristocracy, royalty, the famous Mitford sisters - you should not miss this book. It seems like everybody is in it (the royal family, the Kennedy's, Hitler...). As Debo (Deborah), the youngest of the six Mitford sisters, the author gives us a firsthand view of the family dynamics, her difficult father, the two sisters who befriend Hitler (Unity and Diana), the one who was a Communist (Jessica - "Decca"), the one who was a famous writer of fiction based on the family (Nancy), and the only boy, Tom, who died heroically in the war. She starts from their childhood (which is an interesting insight into a unique family's life) and then their growing up and going into completely opposite ways. The tragedies of the sisters who flirted with Nazism, the tragedies of the lives of the Kennedy's with whom they intermarried are fascinating. Actually, the family knew the Kennedy's all along but when Debo married the second son of the Duke of Devonshire, she was pulled more closely to the Kennedy family. Her husband's older brother married Kathleen Kennedy, Jack Kennedy's older sister. But both the older son and Kathleen were killed, thus making Deborah's husband heir to the dukedom. The family stayed close to the Kennedy's - sitting front row at both his inauguration and his funeral.

The star of the story is the house - Chatsworth House - look it up on the internet, just amazing. Because of the British death tax of 80% it took two decades of selling off things to pay the taxes. No one these days can afford to keep up such a house (65 full time staff, 35,000 acres, hundreds of rooms) so it was donated to a trust and then the trust tries to become self-supporting by opening the house to the public and also selling the fruits and crafts of the estate. The family lives on in the house by renting from the trust. A great deal of the story is how she tackled restoring the house on an austere budget (Britain took decades to recover from WWII). She was an amazing woman. Everyone comes to stay in the house - the royal family, the Kennedy's, famous authors and celebrities - and she gives us some of the scoop on them.

My only criticism of the book is that she is on every blessed committee in Britain, and the itemized lists of committees, the wonderful people on them, all the wonderful people helping with the house, can be pretty tedious. It is something like an acceptance speech at the Oscars, but much longer! But then in the midst of all this, she suddenly turns poignant and tells of intense personal things like the deaths of her three premature babies, her sisters' tragedies, her husband's alcoholism - all with tact and compassion. Of particular interest to Americans is when she comments on the differences on such things as how we handle big celebrations, etc.

I loved reading it on the Kindle but the lack of photos is a big loss. Fortunately, the internet makes up for it.

If you are an Anglophile, don't miss this book.

EROROHALO

Deborah ("Debo") Devonshire, the youngest, and only surviving, of the famous Mitford sisters, has written an autobiography that combines "both" her lives. Born in 1920 as the youngest Redesdale child (and, boringly, the sixth of six daughters), Deborah Devonshire has lived an active 90 years, filled with famous family and friends. The Mitford sisters, famous from the 1930's on for their political beliefs (both Left and Right) and their writing, also had a brother, Tom, who was killed in Burma in 1945. In 1941 she married Andrew Devonshire, younger son of the heir to Chatsworth, one of England's great estates. After the death of Andrew's brother - who had married Kathleen Kennedy - in 1944, Andrew became heir to the Devonshire fortune. After his father died, Andrew and Deborah, had to sell off parts of the estate - paintings and furniture - to pay off the onerous British death duties.Together they developed Chatsworth into a tourist magnet that saved it from the auction block. They had three children who lived and another three who died at birth. Andrew died in 2004; Deborah lives on.

So - "two" lives. Deborah does an excellent job in writing about both parts, not skipping the less attractive parts of life with such eccentric creatures as her parents and sisters. I think she was more honest - open, maybe - about her family of birth than her marital one. In other sources, I've read that her husband wasn't faithful - she does talk about his alcoholism - and from her "couched" writing, it would seem that his relationships with their three children were not close. In addition to their family life, Deborah writes about their "public life", with their postings abroad and the friends and acquaintances they made and the duties they performed.

Hers was an interesting, long life and well-written about. I sometimes wish, though, that I could have read a little more "between the lines".