When a Mitford sister slummed it in Rotherhithe
Katherine Johnston (25 January, 2021)
The reality of life in one of London’s most overcrowded, and poorest areas, soon hit with full force
Jessica Mitford
It may seem like an unlikely London home for a member of one of England’s most famous aristocratic families, but in the 1930s the so-called ‘Red Sheep’ of the Mitford sisters found herself slumming it by the docks of Rotherhithe.
Jessica Mitford was the second youngest child of Conservative peer David Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale, and his wife Sydney Bowles.
Among her siblings were celebrated novelist Nancy of Love in a Cold Climate fame and notorious Nazi sympathiser Diana; the wife of Oswold Mosley.