It is true that she was the most domesticated-a gardener and a keen horsewoman-and probably the only one of them all who ever learned how to cook. The witty poet laureate John Betjeman was in love with her for years, and it is perhaps to that which she owes her rather solid reputation he wrote a poem dedicated to the sisters, ending with the line, “Miss Pamela, most rural of them all.” I knew she was clever-she ultimately married the brilliant, if difficult, scientist Derek Jackson-and while she did not have the staggering beauty of Diana, she was a good-looking girl with large, limpid eyes and shining blonde hair. In some ways, this made her the most interesting to my mind.
Where her siblings achieved fame and notoriety for their novels, extreme political opinions, enormous stately homes, or racy living, Pamela was best known-if at all-as “the country girl.” The second born of the six Mitford sisters, Pamela Mitford is perhaps the one most easily overlooked.
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