Jessica Mitford (
September 11,
1917 -
July 22,
1996), was one of the noted
Mitford sisters. She emigrated to the United States of America from England, and adhered to communism. She was author of
Hons and Rebels (1960), her autobiography,
The American Way of Death (1963),
The Trial of Dr Spock (1970),
The Making of a Muckraker (1979). She married, firstly, Esmond Romilly, and, secondly, Robert Edward Treuhaft.