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The sisters grew from cloistered turn-of-the-century country girls into debutantes who would marry into political influence—for better or worse. Is it any wonder that a young, working class Mimi in Southern California becomes enamored with The Mitfords’ downright fanciful rich-and-famous lifestyle? This charming, inventively cartooned, and lovingly researched biography captures the dramatic, over-the-top antics of high society’s strongest personalities as they rubbed elbows with some of history’s most infamous fascists and communists. Pond’s genius for classic cartooning in the vein of the Vanity Fair caricature and the satirical illustrations of Charles Addams brings the aesthetic decadence of the 1920s and ‘30s to life with effortless aplomb, warts and all.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781770468047","publication_date":"20250916","publisher":"Drawn & Quarterly Publications","slug":"do-admit","subtitle":"The Mitford Sisters and Me","title":"Do Admit"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"LIT025050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Women in Literature","score":0.7568,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS015070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"20th-Century Britain","score":0.749,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004290","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Women Authors Criticism","score":0.7364,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"LIT025050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Women in Literature","score":0.7568,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS015070","confidence_band":"medium","label":"20th-Century Britain","score":0.749,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004290","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Women Authors Criticism","score":0.7364,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"BIO022000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Women's Lives","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"CGN008000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Contemporary Women Graphic Novels","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"HIS015070","confidence_band":"high","label":"20th-Century Britain","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Women in Literature","score":0.7568,"slug":"women-in-literature"},{"label":"20th-Century Britain","score":0.749,"slug":"20th-century-britain"},{"label":"Women Authors Criticism","score":0.7364,"slug":"women-authors-criticism"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in the Mitford sisters and their high-society lives","Readers who enjoy cartooned biographies of historical figures"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Mary S. 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