Jessica Mitford Jessica Mitford Jessica Lucy 'Decca' Freeman-Mitford (11 September 1917 – 22 July 1996) was an English author, journalist, civil rights activist and political campaigner, and was one of the Mitford sisters. Born at Asthall Manor, Mitford, the sixth of seven children, was the daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and his wife Sydney (daughter of politician and publisher Thomas Bowles), and grew up in a series of her father's country houses. She had little formal education, but nevertheless did a great deal of reading. Her sisters Unity and Diana were well-known members of the British Union of Fascists and
Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Apparition (French: "Sœurs de Saint-Joseph-de-l'Apparition"; Latin: "Institutum Sororum a S. Joseph ab Apparitione"; abbreviation: "S.J.A.") is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common. Emily de Vialar was born into an aristocratic family in Gaillac, France on 12th September 12 1797. As the Sisters of Charity of Nevers cared for the sick poor and abandoned infants at their hospital, Emily decided to direct her attention to the education of