21. At Home In Mitford Study Guide / At Home In Mitford Summary Elderly Miss Rose and Uncle Billy live in her ramshackle mansion across from the to buy Miss Rose s dilapidated house, an eyesore in downtown Mitford. http://www.bookrags.com/shortguide-at_home_in_mitford/

Search BookRags.com English History Other Subjects Essays Biographies Research Topics eBooks Register Login Help Literature Study Guides ... Games Welcome, Guest Why not Login or Register Short Guide Navigation Social Concerns Characters Themes Techniques Literary Precedents Related Titles Adaptations Key Questions Order the PDF Home Short Guides At Home in Mitford Study Guide by Jan Karon Social Concerns Father Timothy Kavanaugh, rector of Our Lord's Chapel Episcopal Church in Mitford, North Carolina, shows his parishioners, by word and example, how to live more abundant lives. According to Philippians 4:13, he prays, "I can do everything God asks me to with the help of Christ who gives me the strength and power." He counsels the elderly and shows compassion for widows, orphans, the mentally handicapped and terminally ill. In giving of himself unselfishly to the point of physical and emotional exhaustion, he merits the love and respect of the citizens of Mitford. The villa..... This is a free excerpt of the At Home in Mitford Short Guide. There are 6.7 pages

22. These High, Green Hills Study Guide / These High, Green Hills Summary Other Mitford residents that are growing old are Uncle Billy and Miss Rose, The Mitford community celebrates Miss Sadie s life and death because her http://www.bookrags.com/shortguide-these_high_green_hills/

Search BookRags.com English History Other Subjects Essays Biographies Research Topics eBooks Register Login Help Literature Study Guides ... Games Welcome, Guest Why not Login or Register Short Guide Navigation Social Concerns Characters Themes Techniques Literary Precedents Related Titles Key Questions Order the PDF Home Short Guides These High, Green Hills Study Guide by Jan Karon Social Concerns In Mitford, the village setting of Jan Karon's novels, successful families provide security for individuals and harmony in the community. On the other hand, dysfunctional families cause far-reaching emotional strife and physical harm to both individuals and the community. Timothy Kavanaugh and Cynthia radiate joy and fulfillment in their marriage after years of solitary life. Father Tim thinks that marriage to Cynthia is a miracle almost as wonderful as his salvation experience. Always a sympathetic listener, Cynthia shares Father Tim's problems and helps him find solutions. She bec..... This is a free excerpt of the These High, Green Hills Short Guide. There are 6.5 pages

23. New York Times Over the more than three decades that she wrote nonfiction, Miss Mitford railedagainst Miss Mitford described her childhood hood as largely unhappy. http://www.mitford.org/nytimes.htm

THE NEW YORK TIMES Jessica Mitford, Mordant Critic of American Ways, and a British Upbringing, Dies at 78 By RICHARD SEVERO Jessica Mitford, whose book "The American Way of Death" won her enormous popularity as an irreverent muckraker and witty polemicist, died yesterday at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 78. The cause was cancer, said her daughter, Constancia Romilly. Over the more than three decades that she wrote nonfiction, Miss Mitford railed against those who tried to suppress dissent over the Vietnam War, against a prison system she found to be corrupt and brutalizing, and against a medical profession she thought was greedy and given to unnecessary procedures. She even exposed the odd doings of her sisters. But it was "The American Way of Death," published in 1963, that made the British-born Miss Mitford a formidable literary figure in her adopted country. Near her death she was preparing a revision to be published next year by Alfred A. Knopf. The thesis of the book, a scathing indictment of the American funeral industry, was that undertakers had "Successfully turned the tables in recent years to perpetrate a huge, macabre and expensive practical joke on the American public."

24. NY Times Obit -Robert Treuhaft> Miss Mitford, who was known as Decca and who died in 1996, dedicated the work to In a 1993 interview, Miss Mitford said that initially she had not been http://www.mitford.org/nyobit.html

December 2, 2001 Robert Treuhaft, Lawyer Who Inspired Funeral Exposé, Dies at 89 By PAUL LEWIS Robert Treuhaft, a crusading radical lawyer who inspired his wife, Jessica Mitford, to write her best seller "The American Way of Death," died in New York on Nov. 11. He was 89. As a union lawyer representing longshoremen in the San Francisco area in the 1950's, Mr. Treuhaft was enraged by the exorbitant fees undertakers charged, frequently consuming a widow's death benefits. After organizing the Bay Area Funeral Society to reduce the cost of funerals for union members, Mr. Treuhaft encouraged his wife to write an exposé of the funeral industry, taking a year off from his Oakland law practice to help with research. The result was "The American Way of Death," first published in 1963. Miss Mitford, who was known as Decca and who died in 1996, dedicated the work to her husband with gratitude for "his untiring collaboration." In a 1993 interview, Miss Mitford said that initially she had not been interested in the subject. "Then Bob started bringing home the trade publications like Casket and Sunnyside, Mortuary Management — all those wonderful names — so I began to study them," she said. When the British novelist Evelyn Waugh remarked that the book seemed to have been written by two people, Jessica Mitford's sister Nancy wrote back saying: "Clever of you to see the two voices. I am quite certain much of it was written by Treuhaft who is a sharp little lawyer, and who certainly made her write it in the first place."

25. Jessica Mitford prevent our marriage, Farve made me a Ward in Chancery and his solicitors sentEsmond a telegram saying, Miss Jessica Mitford is a ward of the court. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SPmitford.htm

Jessica Mitford Spartacus USA History British History Second World War ... Email Jessica Mitford, the daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale , was born in Burford, Oxfordshire, in 1917. The sister of Diana Mitford Nancy Mitford and Unity Mitford , she was educated at home by her mother. Mitford's parents held right-wing political views and supported the British Union of Fascists and in 1936 their daughter, Diana Mitford, married its leader, Oswald Mosley . Another daughter, Unity Mitford , went to Nazi Germany and became a close friend of Adolf Hitler Unlike the rest of her family, Jessica developed left-wing political opinions. At the age of fourteen she was converted to pacifism and later, like her sister, Nancy Mitford , became a socialist . Jessica even considered the possibility of visiting Germany with her sister and murdering Hitler. She later wrote: "Unfortunately, my will to live was too strong for me actually to carry

26. Salon: Farewell, Lady Decca Mornin Miss Mitford! And a jolly good morning to you, Mr. P. The Mitfordsaga is an epic that will no doubt end up on Masterpiece Theater. http://www.salon.com/weekly/mitford960805.html

F A R E W E L L , L A D Y D E C C A American death industry. But her greatest contribution may have been the joie de vivre she brought to a gloomy American left. By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Photograph by Ed Kashi ECCA MITFORD, taken off the stage at the age of 78 by cancer, had a voice so confident in its intonations that it vanquished furtiveness and shame like a thresher going through a field of wheat. A friend of mine once went to a session on censorship at a concert hall in San Francisco. The place was stuffed with righteous folk of correct disposition, many of them taking the position that porn prompted men to acts of darkness, and that maybe some fine-tuning of the First Amendment would be no bad thing. Explaining that the fine-tuning might not be in the hands of thoughtful persons such as those mustered in the concert hall but of nastier types like J. Helms and E. Meese, Decca started discussing the porn films she had been watching with her husband, Bob Truehaft, as part of her researches into filth. There had, she said, been "a man with a most enormous penis, perched on a motorbike with a woman. I said to Bob, 'That looks frightfully dangerous.'" Then she started raising questions about working conditions in the porn industry, industrial comp and other important aspects of the situation. The way Decca bugled out the word "penis," entered it triumphantly into the concert hall after the adjectival build-up of "enormous" in her plummy tones, changed the entire mood of the gathering. "Penis" lost the furtive, indeed shameful connotation with which it had become burdened in that oh-so-correct concert hall. Ennobled by her imperious tongue, it was amply endowed with a sort of bluff heartiness just like the hunting parsons Decca must have seen in her aristocratic youth. "Mornin' Miss Mitford!" "And a jolly good morning to you, Mr. P."

27. PAGE ONE -- Celebrated Muckraker Jessica Mitford Dies Jessica Mitford, a muckraking journalist whose work inspired a generation ``I sniff in Miss Mitford s jolly book . . . a resentment that anyone at all http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/07/24/MN5

28. PAGE ONE -- Celebrated Muckraker Jessica Mitford Dies ``I sniff in Miss Mitford s jolly book . . . a resentment that anyone atall (except presumably writers) should make any money out of anything. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/07/24/MN5

29. Reading Group Guide | THE MITFORD YEARS SERIES By Jan Karon Book I In At Home in Mitford, Father Tim finds himself running on empty. Compare Miss Sadie s gift of money to build the nursing home with Edith http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/mitford_years_series.asp

Penguin Putnam The Mitford Years Series by Jan Karon List Price: Pages: Boxed Edition (4 paperbacks) Format: Paperback ISBN: Publisher: Riverhead Books Book I: In At Home in Mitford, Father Tim finds himself running on empty. Even after twelve years of shepherding his flock, he finds that Emma, his secretary, persists in treating him like a ten-year-old. Barnabas, a huge black dog, adopts him, and a hostile mountain boy, Dooley, is thrust into his care. To add to his confusion, a growing friendship with Cynthia Coppersmith, his new neighbor, stirs emotions he hasn't felt in years. Book II: In A Light in the Window, Father Tim is in love and running scared. Cynthia has won his heart, but he is set in his ways and afraid of letting go. To complicate things, a wealthy and powerful widow pursues Father Tim, plying him with crab cobbler and old sherry. In the ensuing comedy of errors, he just can't set his foot right. Somehow the antidote to this confusion rests in the history of his oldest and dearest parishioner, Miss Sadie, and the discovery of family she didn't know she had. Book III: In These High, Green Hills, Father Tim fulfills Cynthia's conviction that deep down he is a man of romance, panache, and daring. Though his cup of joy overflows, his heart goes out to those around him who so badly need the healing aid of a loving heart. Chief among these is Dooley, his teenage ward, whose rough edges grate against the boarding school he both loves and hates. Can Father Tim face the much deeper needs of Dooley's mother, Pauline, and the battered young girl Lace, whose childhood has been a horror story of neglect?

30. ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Mitford Years Series By Jan Karon Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Mitford is a crazy quilt of saints and Compare Miss Sadie s gift of money to build the nursing home with Edith http://www.readinggroupguides.com/series/series_mitford_years1.asp

Book I: At Home in Mitford Book II: A Light in the Window Book III: These High, Green Hills Book IV: Out to Canaan ... Bibliography The Mitford Years Series by Jan Karon Come away to Mitford, the small town that takes care of its own. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Mitford is a crazy quilt of saints and sinners - lovable eccentrics all. Seen through the eyes of Father Tim, the long-suffering Village Rector, Mitford abounds in both mysteries and miracles, compelling readers to return again and again to this beloved series. In the tradition of James Herriot, Bailey White, and Garrison Keillor, author Jan Karon brilliantly captures the foibles and delights of a hilarious cast of characters. Book I: At Home in Mitford Penguin Books ISBN: 014025448X ABOUT THE BOOK Father Tim finds himself running on empty. Even after twelve years of shepherding his flock, he finds that Emma, his secretary, persists in treating him like a ten-year-old. Barnabas, a huge black dog, adopts him, and a hostile mountain boy, Dooley, is thrust into his care. To add to his confusion, a growing friendship with Cynthia Coppersmith, his new neighbor, stirs emotions he hasn't felt in years. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS What role does Barnabas play in Father Tim's life? What other characters seem to invade Father Tim's already busy life, only later to prove enriching elements? Are there any that are a permanent drag on his spirits? How does Father Tim come to terms with them?

31. Penguin Reading Guides | The Mitford Years Series | Jan Karon Mitford is packed with delightful characters like Dooley, Miss Rose, Emma, MissSadie, and Homeless Hobbes. Where do they all come from? Darned if I know. http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/mitford_years_series.html

my cart home browse books featured books ... penguin gear some kind of wonderful Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks U.S. $14.00 add to cart read more Get our free guide to Geraldine Brooks' novel of one courageous woman's struggle to survive in the year of the plague. favorites Want to discover a new author? Browse through our featured new guides . Want to brush up on the classics? Check out the guides for our featured classics by title by author by subject ... great books THE MITFORD YEARS SERIES by Jan Karon At Home in Mitford A Light in the Window These High, Green Hills Out to Canaan A New Song A Common Life In In This Mountain INTRODUCTION Come away to Mitford, the small town that takes care of its own. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Mitford is a crazy quilt of saints and sinners lovable eccentrics all. Seen through the eyes of Father Tim, the long-suffering Village Rector, Mitford abounds in both mysteries and miracles, compelling readers to return again and again to this beloved series. In the tradition of James Herriot, Bailey White, and Garrison Keillor, author Jan Karon brilliantly captures the foibles and delights of a hilarious cast of characters.

32. EReader.com: Author: Miss Mitford Looking for eBooks? eReader.com is the World s largest eBook store, providingeBook downloads for fiction, nonfiction and reference books, http://www.ereader.com/author/detail/6987

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33. Miss Fannie's Hat Author of the bestselling series, The Mitford Years, Jan Karon left a Miss Fannie s Hat, her first children s book, is based on memories of Jan s http://www.villagebooks-mtshasta.com/missfannieshat.html

by Jan Karon Kid's Pick for April 2001! Don't miss this charming and inspirational story - with a great "Easter Sunday" twist! Miss Fannie is ninety-nine years old. And very small. In fact, she's grown to be about the same size she was as a little girl. Miss Fannie has lots of hats. And each one is her favorite. But when she gives up her very favorite hat to help raise money in the church auction, Miss Fannie - and the reader - is in for a real treat. Readers young and old will be enchanted by Miss Fannie. They'll also discover wonderful truths about trust and faith and the rewards of unselfish love. Author of the bestselling series, The Mitford Years, Jan Karon left a successful advertising career to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an author. She moved to the small town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, which provided background for the setting of her fictional Mitford. Miss Fannie's Hat, her first children's book, is based on memories of Jan's grandmother, Miss Fannie, who lived to be a hundred years old, and who provided the model for the story's wonderful title character. And don't miss Jan Karon's other wonderful children's book - Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny.

34. Email Book Club Forums I LOVE Mitford! I have read this book, (several times, in fact) but will love to the Mitford series is coming to an end; I would recommend the Miss Read http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=180658&messageid=1047308313&lp=105

35. Commentary Magazine - Kind And Usual Punishment, By Jessica Mitford First, Miss Mitford does battle with the school of thought that explains crime in Quite simply, Miss Mitford advocates that prisons be done away with http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V57I1P82-1.htm

var AID="05701082_1"; Kind and Usual Punishment, by Jessica Mitford Plattner, Marc F. Scarcely a single social critic has a good word for the American penal system; its glaring defects, virtually all agree, stand in urgent need of change. ...The real problem, in Miss Mitford's view, is not that the penal system fails to deter crime, but that crime itself is merely a label that the oppressors have given to activity that threatens their self-interest... ...Her own contention that rehabilitation does not work -that it does not succeed in reducing the rate of recidivism-constitutes an admission of the obvious fact that prisons do protect the public from the many prisoners who, if they were at large, would be committing crimes... ...There is, in addition, something disingenuous about Miss Mitford's assertion that prisons are useless, for the thrust of her book as a whole is to suggest not that prisons serve no purpose at all but that they serve a malign pupose, not that they are impotent but that they are only too potent a weapon, which one part of American society ("middle-class/white/middleaged") uses to oppress another part ("poor/young/black/brown... ...Does not justice demand that those found guilty in this affair be sent to prison... ...According to this view, prisons should be the jurisdiction of a corps of professional personnelXMARC F. PLATTNER is managing editor of the Public Interest and teaches at Touro College in New York...

36. BookPage Children's Review: Miss Fannie's Hat People want Mitford to be real, and they want Miss Fannie to be real. I love tosay that both are real. There are Mitfords everywhere, and a few Miss http://www.bookpage.com/9804bp/childrens/miss_fannies_hat.html

Miss Fannie's Hat By Jan Karon Illustrated by Toni Goffe Augsburg, $16.99 ISBN 0806635266 Buy or borrow this book! Support your local independent bookseller Find it in a WorldCat library Compare prices at major online bookstores You'll want to gather all the kids around for a touch of Mitford as you read Jan Karon's first picture book for children, Miss Fannie's Hat . Of course, Mitford, the town that is the setting for Karon's best-selling adult series is never mentioned, but the charming story and Toni Goffe's child-friendly illustrations give the same warm-hearted feeling. We know this place. Karon knew the real Miss Fannie well she was Jan's grandmother who lived to be 100 years old. Like the book's character, Miss Fannie was a tiny woman of great spunk and faith, who loved wearing colorful hats. The story seems rather quiet in the beginning. Miss Fannie lives with her daughter Miss Wanda, who prepares her meals, helps her shampoo and curl her hair, and, after Miss Fannie has decided which of her many hats to wear, takes her to church on Sundays. One Sunday, the young preacher asks Miss Fannie to donate a hat to the church fundraiser for pre-Easter repairs. She agrees, but deciding which one to give is not easy. Miss Fannie asks the Lord what she should do, remembering past episodes involving each hat as she considers which one to give. Finally, she selects her very favorite her Easter hat. When Easter arrives, Miss Fannie goes to church with only her curls on her head. The surprise that awaits her there makes her gift more than worthwhile.

37. Centre D'études Du 19e Siècle Français Joseph Sablé. Translate this page «La comédie en pension, par Miss Mitford», Revue Britannique, tome 6, 1836, 363-373 . Les émigrés français à Londres, par Miss Marie Russell Mitford», http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/sable/recherche/banques/femmes/auteures/mitf

Accueil Femmes Auteures : Mitford Femmes MITFORD, MISS MARIE RUSSELL Journal des jeunes personnes , tome XI, 1843, 312-315. Revue Britannique , tome 6, 1836, 363-373. Revue Britannique , tome 5, 1836, 135-150. Design, en collaboration avec Jeanne Humphries, et gestion du site web: Emitting Media

38. Mary Russell Mitford Mr. Harness has chiefly told Miss Mitford s story in her own words by quotationsfrom her letters, and, as one reads, one can almost follow her moods as http://www.abacci.com/books/authorDetails.asp?authorID=549

39. MISS SACKVILLE’S FANCY Miss SALLY AT THE PARTY. AKA and see I Asked That Pretty Girl to be My Wife . Dixon locates the village of Mitford to the west of Morpeth, http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/MISSSA_MIX.htm

The Fiddler’s Companion Andrew Kuntz HOME ALPHABETICAL FILES REFERENCES MISS SA - MIX MISS SACKVILLE’S FANCY English, Country Dance Tune (2/4 time). D Major. Standard. AABB. The melody also appears in the 1799 William Mittell manuscript. Miss Sackville may have been from the household of Lord Sackville (1716-1785). Aird Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs ), Vol. II, 1782; No. 191, pg. 71. Rhianon Records, Barry Dransfield – “Be Your Own Man.” X:1 T:Miss Sackville’s Fancy M:2/4 L:1/8 S:Aird, Vol. II (1782) Z:AK/ Fiddler’s Companion K:D MISS SALLY AT THE PARTY AKA and see " I Asked That Pretty Girl to be My Wife ." Old‑Timey, Breakdown. USA, Mississippi. G Major. Standard. AB. The source for the tune, W.E. Claunch, recorded in 1939 for the Library of Congress, learned the tune from his father, James Claunch. Tom Rankin (1985) believes the tune to be a regional north-eastern Mississippi tune played by several fiddlers there, but only found in one other source ‑‑ an Oklahoma fiddler in Marion Thede's fiddle book (under the title "I Asked That Pretty Girl to Be My Wife"). I asked Miss Sally to be my wife

40. Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive Mitford, Mary Russell. (17871855). Novelist and poet. Little Miss Wren aSketch, 1830, 125; • The Rat-catcher a Sketch, 1831, 201. http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/Authors_Mitford.htm

Index of Mary Russell Mitford's Contributions to British Literary Annuals This index was compiled from my research, Andrew Boyle's An Index to the Annuals 1820-1850 and Frederick Faxon's Literary Annuals and Gift Books: A Bibliography 1823-1903 To view prose or poetry pieces, click on the Title The author's biographical identification is from Boyle's index (not my own). Understandably, these identifications are somewhat dated and most likely unappreciative of the entire biographical data of the individual. Mitford, Mary Russell.  Novelist and poet.  Author of “Our Village.”  Edited Finden’s Tableaux . [102 entries; some works published in more than one literary annual.] (Boyle 193-95). Forget Me Not. • Alice: a Dramatic Scene, 1826, 5; • A Village Sketch, 1826, 304; • Grace Neville, 1827, 57; • Sonnet, 1827, 174; • Sonnet, 1827, 267; • The Bridal Eve, 1827, 363; • The Wedding Ring, 1828, 79; • The Country Apothecary, 1828, 113; • Lost and Won, 1829, 217;

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