Mimi Pond’s Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me is both a rollicking graphic biography of seven brilliantly eccentric British sisters and a self-portrait of Pond’s 1960s Southern California childhood. Deeply researched and very funny, it’s a lively profile of the sisters, who were born to great aristocratic privilege, if not great wealth, and developed an impressive range of political dispositions and talents: including novelist (Nancy), muckraking lefty journalist (Jessica), and scandalous Nazi/Hitler sympathizers (Diana and Unity).
In this 10-page excerpt, Pond remembers her own childhood years yearning for a sister and for the kind of posh and privilege that defined the Mitford girls. Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond is out now from Drawn & Quarterly.
