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There is and can be no sentence in this book which sums its author up, but two of those which stay in my mind are: 'I buy most of my clothes at agricultural shows, ' and (on receiving a moss tree as a present) 'I pulled it to bits to see how it was made.' So, now you think you've got her? Far from it. She's also mad about Elvis Presley. ---Tom Stoppard, from the introduction of Counting My Chickens At the heart of this collection are three pieces of a different order and all remarkable: diaries of the inauguration of President Kennedy in 1961, of his funeral two years later and an account of the 'Treasure Houses of Britain' exhibition in Washington in 1985....Her account of Kennedy's funeral...is so heartfelt it is difficult to read. ---Alan Bennett, from the introduction of Home to Roost Mitford says she writes 'solely in an effort to amuse, ' and amuse she does....Mitford writes about what she knows or remembers: country life, chickens, stately homes, gardening, and famous friends. Open Mitford's book to peep into a vanishing world; keep turning the pages to laugh and learn a thing or two about birds, trees, and tiaras. --- The Charleston Post and Courier

There is and can be no sentence in this book which sums its author up, but two of those which stay in my mind are: 'I buy most of my clothes at agricultural shows, ' and (on receiving a moss tree as a present) 'I pulled it to bits to see how it was made.' So, now you think you've got her? Far from it. She's also mad about Elvis Presley. ---Tom Stoppard, from the introduction of Counting My Chickens <p> <p> At the heart of this collection are three pieces of a different order and all remarkable: diaries of the inauguration of President Kennedy in 1961, of his funeral two years later and an account of the 'Treasure Houses of Britain' exhibition in Washington in 1985....Her account of Kennedy's funeral...is so heartfelt it is difficult to read. ---Alan Bennett, from the introduction of Home to Roost <p> <p> Mitford says she writes 'solely in an effort to amuse, ' and amuse she does....Mitford writes about what she knows or remembers: country life, chickens, stately homes, gardening, and famous friends. Open Mitford's book to peep into a vanishing world; keep turning the pages to laugh and learn a thing or two about birds, trees, and tiaras. --- The Charleston Post and Courier

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Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was brought up in Oxfordshire, England. In 1950 her husband, Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, inherited extensive estates in Yorkshire and Ireland as well as Chatsworth, the family seat in Derbyshire, and Deborah became chatelaine of one of England's great houses. She is the author of Wait for Me!, Counting My Chickens and Home to Roost, among other books, and her letters have been collected in The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters and In Tearing Haste: The Correspondence of the Duchess of Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Following her husband's death in 2004, she moved to a village on the Chatsworth estate.

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