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Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time

Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time

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This collection of scholarly essays on Naomi Mitchison's life and work includes new research and archival scholarship, featuring a never-before-published short story based on her experiences as a delegate to an International P.E.N. conference in Zurich. Mitchison is one of Scotland's most important yet understudied twentieth-century writers, and this volume showcases her diverse literary work, including nine critical essays by scholars from the UK and the USA. It is an essential resource for students, scholars, and teachers of literature.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press



The first published collection of scholarship on Naomi Mitchison's life and work, including a new, never-before-published short story by Mitchison.
The first collection of scholarly essays on Naomi Mitchison's life and writing deals with a broad sweep of Mitchison's life and work, including her historical fiction, science fiction, travels in the USA and USSR, political activism, feminism, and writing for children.
Includes new research and archival scholarship by UK- and USA-based scholars of twentieth-century literature.
Features a new, never-before-published story by Mitchison based on her experiences as a delegate to an International P.E.N. conference in Zurich shortly after the Second World War.
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, motherhood, 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.

Weight: 424g
Dimension: 161 x 241 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474494748

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