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Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999)

Author of Travel Light

Includes the names: N Mitchison, NAOMI MITCHSON, Naomi Michison, Noami Mitchison, Naomi Mitchison, Naomi MITCHINSON, Naiomi Mitchison, Naomi M. Mitchison, Naomi Margaret Mitchison

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Works by Naomi Mitchison

Travel Light 283 copies, 12 reviews
Memoirs of a Spacewoman 227 copies, 10 reviews
The Corn King and the Spring Queen 197 copies, 6 reviews
Blood of the Martyrs 79 copies, 2 reviews
Solution Three 71 copies, 1 review
Among You Taking Notes...: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison, 1939-1945 46 copies
The Bull Calves 38 copies, 2 reviews
To the chapel perilous 35 copies, 2 reviews
The Conquered 31 copies, 1 review
Early in Orcadia 20 copies
You May Well Ask: A Memoir, 1920-1940 19 copies
Black Sparta 17 copies, 1 review
When the Bough Breaks 16 copies, 1 review
The Fourth Pig (Oddly Modern Fairy Tales) 14 copies

Cloud Cuckoo Land 14 copies, 2 reviews

The Young Alfred the Great 13 copies

Alexander the Great (Then & There) 11 copies

Images of Africa 11 copies

As It Was: "Small Talk" and "All Change Here" 10 copies

The Big House (Kelpies) 9 copies

The land the ravens found 8 copies

Lobsters on the Agenda 8 copies

Not by Bread Alone 7 copies

The Africans 7 copies

The delicate fire, short stories and poems 6 copies

Small Talk: Memories of an Edwardian Childhood 6 copies

Cleansing of the Knife and Other Poems 6 copies

The Oath-takers 5 copies, 1 review

Barbarian stories 5 copies

African Heroes 5 copies

Return to the Fairy Hill 5 copies

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Also by Naomi Mitchison

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (Contributor) 459 copies, 4 reviews
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (Contributor) 279 copies, 6 reviews
Nova 2 (Contributor) 109 copies, 1 review
Nova 1 (Contributor) 108 copies, 2 reviews
Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind: An Anthology of Original… (Contributor) 97 copies, 1 review
The Outdated Man (Contributor) 94 copies, 2 reviews
The Year 2000 (Contributor) 87 copies, 1 review
Sorcerers! (Contributor) 85 copies
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #2 (Contributor) 83 copies
Edges (Contributor) 78 copies, 1 review
Elsewhere, Volume 3 (Contributor) 73 copies
The New Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories (Contributor) 56 copies, 1 review
The Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories (Contributor) 52 copies
Nova 4 (Contributor) 51 copies

Under African Skies (Future Earths) (Contributor) 45 copies

Best SF: 1970 (Contributor) 40 copies

Andromeda: No. 1 (Orbit Books) (Contributor) 34 copies

The Oxford Book of Historical Stories (Contributor) 31 copies

The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (Contributor) 23 copies, 1 review

Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction (Contributor) 18 copies

Heroic Adventures: Stories from the Golden Age of Greece and Rome (Contributor) 14 copies

An Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature (Contributor) 13 copies

Modern Women Poets (Contributor) 11 copies

Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Tenth Annual Collection (Contributor) 9 copies

The Other voice : Scottish women's writing since 1808 : an anthology (Contributor) 8 copies

Starfield (Contributor) 8 copies

Outspoken Women An Anthology of Women's Writing on Sex, 1870-1969 (Contributor) 6 copies

The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas… (Contributor) 4 copies

Worlds of Fantasy, Vol. 1 No. 3, Winter 1970 (Contributor) 3 copies

Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the… (Contributor) 2 copies

Young Winter's Tales 6 (Contributor) 1 copy

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Canonical name

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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret Haldane

Other names

Haldane, Naomi Margaret (birth)

Date of birth

Date of death

Burial location

Cremated (ashes scattered at Carradale ∙ Kintyre ∙ Scotland ∙ UK)

Gender

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Birthplace

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK

Place of death

Carradale, Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, UK

Places of residence

Carradale, Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, UK

Education

Dragon School, Oxford

University of Oxford (St Anne's College)

Occupations

Relationships

Haldane, J.B.S. (brother)

Haldane, Viscount R. B. Haldane Haldane (uncle)

Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson (aunt)

Haldane, John Scott (father)

Haldane, James Alexander (great-grandfather)

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Organizations

Eugenics Society (Life Fellow)

Voluntary Aid Detachment (WWI)

Fairy Investigation Society

Awards and honors

Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 1981)

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Links

Wikipedia author page

Raymond H. Thompson interview

New York Times obituary

Guardian article

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