Louise Brealey reads a letter Jessica Mitford wrote to Maya Angelou

In 1992, English aristocrat Jessica Mitford wrote a letter to friend and fellow author Maya Angelou, after an encounter with a member of the Royal family.

Louise Brealey joined us to read this letter at Letters Live at the Royal Albert Hall, in October 2022.

Letter © The Estate of Jessica Mitford

[PokhrajRoy.]

The title really took me by surprise. I never knew the two interacted with each other.

[davidsandri]

Louise Brealey is such a treasure, so awesome

[PokhrajRoy.]

Jessica Mitford woke up and chose violence 😂

[CatsandJP]

Well there is a saying….You can be so far up yourself you are almost inside out. This clearly applies to Ms Mitford. Read impeccably by Louise.

[turtleislandlac]

I'm enjoying these readings but are you ever going to post Daisy Ridley's reading from October 2021? I"ve been waiting to listen to that for a long time.

[Gryphon]

So that's where the "Lizard People Alien Royalty" rumors comes from....

[karenburrows]

Aristocrats they may have been, but by all accounts, there did not exist a more motley, socialist, self-indulgent or renegade bunch of women. They were notorious, and I found Mitford's criticism of Princess Margaret to be rather hypocritical from what I've read. I also noticed an error in the reading where Ms. Brealey refers to HRH Margaret as HRH Anne.

[igoretski]

What is the monster of Gloms? The Monster of Glamis? Or the monster of glumse quark cheese?

[roses]

Well, Mrs. Mitford certainly knows how to identify snobbery and unctuousness. Maybe her mirror is her tutor...