# Event Details - **Event Name**: Lecture | Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters, In Print: Which Story is True? - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: With Carla KaplanAbout this EventAcclaimed biographer Carla Kaplan, author of Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford (HarperCollins), will explore the print and manuscript culture of Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) and her five sisters, members of a famous British literary family. They wrote autobiographical novels and memoirs, offering wildly contrasting accounts of one another. Jessica had escaped a cosseted childhood in a Cotswold manor to become a California-based Communist and then muckraker. With her 1960 memoir—fond, funny, and often teasing of her equally celebrated (or notorious) relatives—she hoped to come closer to the family she’d left behind. But instead, the book, which was lauded and sold well in the U.K. and America, worsened the rifts. This talk will shed light on what the sisters wrote and published, with different lenses on their upbringing, as well as their libraries and Kaplan’s own book collection, which includes Mitford's rare mimeographed books and archival documentation of wranglings with publishers. Kaplan will be in conversation with Mitford's daughter Constancia Romilly.Carla Kaplan, author of Troublemaker, is a professor of English, African-American and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and holds the Davis Distinguished Professorship in American Literature. She contributes to publications including The New York Times, and among her award-winning books are Miss Anne in Harlem: the White Women of the Black Renaissance and a biography of Zora Neale Hurston. Kaplan founded the Northeastern Humanities Center and has been a resident fellow at institutions including New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Harvard University’s Houghton Library and W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute; University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center; Yale University's Beinecke Library; Massachusetts Historical Society, the Ohio State University, and Smith College.RegistrationIf you are a Grolier Club member, please register yourself and your guests via the Club website. Do not register via Eventbrite.SupportWe appreciate your interest in the Grolier Club’s programming on the art and history of the book. For over 130 years we have offered our exhibitions and lectures to the public, free of charge. If you have enjoyed these offerings, and would like to support that tradition, and help ensure that it continues, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the Grolier Club. 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Members and visitors are advised to bring a light wrap when visiting an exhibition, or attending an event in the hall. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/lecture-|-jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print-which-story-is-true/100001982038860587 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Exhibitions, Nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: The Grolier Club - **lat**: 40.7640195 - **long**: -73.9699171 - **full address**: The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Lecture | Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters, In Print: Which Story is True? - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/76bd64d53843e7f83f6a60725f333cf0cb1a1c08814f1d64cc06090772386430-rimg-w1180-h591-dcfcfbe6-gmir.jpg?v=1770360390 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Lecture | Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters, In Print: Which Story is True? being held? - **A:** Lecture | Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters, In Print: Which Story is True? takes place on Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm at The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Lecture | Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters, In Print: Which Story is True?? - **A:** Lecture | Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters, In Print: Which Story is True? is organized by The Grolier Club. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Lecture | Jessica Mitford and Her Sisters, In Print: Which Story is True?", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/76bd64d53843e7f83f6a60725f333cf0cb1a1c08814f1d64cc06090772386430-rimg-w1180-h591-dcfcfbe6-gmir.jpg?v=1770360390", "startDate": "2026-05-27T18:30:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-05-27T19:30:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/lecture-|-jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print-which-story-is-true/100001982038860587", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "The Grolier Club", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "47 East 60th Street", "postalCode": "10022", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.7640195", "longitude": "-73.9699171" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "With Carla Kaplan", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-06", "availabilityEnds": "2026-05-27T19:30:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-02-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/lecture-|-jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print-which-story-is-true/100001982038860587" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-02-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/lecture-|-jessica-mitford-and-her-sisters-in-print-which-story-is-true/100001982038860587", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The Grolier Club", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-grolier-club/17854553", "description": "Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club is America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts. 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