Showing posts with label Leadbelly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leadbelly. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
In case you aren't convinced
… that Jessica (Decca) Mitford was the best of the lot: she started a Running-Away fund from an early age, and used it to go to Spain with Esmond Romilly, Churchill's nephew. She had Leadbelly to stay, as well as many of the Black Panthers. She tried to give her share of an inherited island to the Communist Party (largely, I suspect, to annoy her sisters). J K Rowling named her daughter after Jessica - a great role model.
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