Talks Club: The Mitford Sisters & the Devonshire Jewels

Join Susannah Fullerton OAM (one of Australia’s literary experts, author, ArtsNational lecturer and President of the Jane Austen Society Australia) and Adrian Dickens (personal jeweller and ArtsNational lecturer) for two captivating talks exploring the lives, personalities and jewels of the Mitford family.

Susannah Fullerton presents Those Mitford Girls!, a talk which looks at the lives and works of these unconventional sisters. The aristocratic Mitford sisters were writers and socialites, biographers and essayists. Jessica, who wrote Hons and Rebels and The American Way of Death, was a communist and human rights activist. Unity sympathised with the Nazis and worshipped Hitler. Nancy’s Love in a Cold Climate characters had a reckless upper-class Bohemianism and were determined to find life amusing at all costs, Diana became the most hated woman in Britain during World War II and Deborah became a Duchess.

Adrian Dickens presents The Jewels of Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, exploring the…