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As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland’s most important yet understudied twentieth-century writers. This volume showcases the first collection of scholarly essays addressing her diverse literary work, including nine critical essays by scholars from the UK and the USA dealing with aspects such as spirituality, socialism, eugenics, war, the short story, science, feminism, mothering, and decolonisation. The volume also features ‘Europe’: a previously unknown story by Mitchison, here published for the first time. Aimed at students, scholars, and teachers of literature from undergraduate level upwards, it is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in Mitchison’s life and literary legacy.
Edinburgh University Press
Title: Naomi Mitchison
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As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland’s most important yet understudied twentieth-century writers.
This volume showcases the first collection of scholarly essays addressing her diverse literary work, including nine critical essays by scholars from the UK and the USA dealing with aspects such as spirituality, socialism, eugenics, war, the short story, science, feminism, mothering, and decolonisation.
The volume also features ‘Europe’: a previously unknown story by Mitchison, here published for the first time.
Aimed at students, scholars, and teachers of literature from undergraduate level upwards, it is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in Mitchison’s life and literary legacy.
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Varieties of Sexual Experience: Naomi Mitchison, Mysticism and Gerald Heard
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Send in the Clones? Naomi Mitchison and the Politics of Reproduction and Motherhood
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Naomi Mitchison was positioned centrally within twentieth century debates about reproduction. She was the sister of Communist geneticist J. B. S. Haldane; the enthusiastic mother o...