Mitchison, Naomi, 1897-1999
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Mitchison, Naomi (Haldane), 1897-
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Mitchison, Naomi Margaret (1897-1999).
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Mitchison, Naomi M. 1897-1999
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Haldane, Naomi Margaret 1897-1999
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Haldane, Naomi Margaret 1897-1999
Mitchison, Naomi Haldane 1897-1999
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Mitchison, Naomi Haldane 1897-1999
Mitchison, Naomi May Margaret 1897-1999
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Mitchison, Naomi May Margaret 1897-1999
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret 1897-1999
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Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret 1897-1999
Mitchison, Naomi M. 1897-
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Mitchison, Naomi M. 1897- (Haldane),
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ミッチソン, ナオミ
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Mitchison, Naomi (Haldane)
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English author.
English author, novelist, and poet.
Naomi Mitchison was born in Scotland in 1897, the daughter of the physiologist John Haldane (1892-1964). She studied science at Oxford and, in 1916, married the barrister Gilbert Mitchison (1890-1970). Gilbert ('Dick') Mitchison shared his wife's socialist beliefs and was later Labour MP for Kettering (1945-1964). He was made a life peer (Baron Mitchison of Carradale) in 1964.
Mitchison herself was a prolific author and completed over ninety works in her lifetime. These included historical and contemporary novels, poetry, plays, short stories, children's and fantasy fiction, and a set of memoirs. Politically active in the 1930s when she stood as a Labour Party candidate for the Scottish Universities in 1935, advocacy - especially of women's rights but also in respect of Scottish island communities - remained an important part of her life. She travelled widely and had a particular interest in African affairs. Africa provided a setting for some of her novels. In 1963 she was made a tribal adviser ('Mmarona' or 'mother') to the Bakgatla of Botswana. The close relationship with this tribal community began when, having been stranded while travelling, the chief offered her hospitality. A lasting relationship with the Bakgatla developed from this and she continuted to visit even in her later years.
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