Wigs on the Green

Featuring an Introduction by the author of "The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters," Mitford's most controversial novel, unavailable for decades, is a hilarious send-up of the misguided political enthusiasms of her notorious sisters, Unity and Diana. Never before available in the United States, "Wigs on the Green" can now be enjoyed by fans of Mitford's comic novels.

Nancy Mitford, daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale and the eldest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, was born in 1904 and educated at home on the family estate in Oxfordshire. She made her debut in London and soon became one of the bright young things of the 1920s, a close friend of Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh, John Betjeman, and their circle. A beauty and a wit, she began writing for magazines and writing novels while she was still in her twenties. In all, she wrote eight novels as well as biographies of Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, Louis XIV, and Frederick the Great. She died in 1973. More information can be found at www.nancymitford.com.