Jessica Mitford

Jessica Lucy "Decca" Treuhaft (née Freeman-Mitford, later Romilly; 11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.

Quotes

• O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative’s funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment.
  • The American Way of Death (1963), ch. 1
  • Cf. 1 Corinthians 15:55

• According to one of my correspondents, Jessica Mitford was overheard to remark, "I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister."
  • Quoted in the Saturday Review (1 February 1964). Reported in J. M. and M. J. Cohen (eds.) The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1971), p. 159

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Jessica Mitford on Wikipedia