Mitford family Vanessa, Atalanta, and Jessica. A portion of Jessica Mitford's writing is used as a spoken-word introduction to the song "Last Act of Defiance", about the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, on thrash metal band Exodus's 1989 album "Fabulous Disaster". Mitford sisters by William Acton Mitford family The Mitford family is a gentry (minor aristocratic) English family whose main family line had seats at Mitford, Northumberland. Several heads of the family served as High Sheriff of Northumberland. A junior line, with seats at Newton Park, Northumberland, and Exbury House, Hampshire, descends via the historian William Mitford (1744–1827) and were twice elevated
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