Naomi Mitchison

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Naomi Mitchison


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
November 01, 1897

Died
January 11, 1999

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Naomi Mitchison, author of over 70 books, died in 1999 at the age of 101. She was born in and lived in Scotland and traveled widely throughout the world. In the 1960s she was adopted as adviser and mother of the Bakgatla tribe in Botswana. Her books include historical fiction, science fiction, poetry, autobiography, and nonfiction, the most popular of which are The Corn King and the Spring Queen, The Conquered, and Memoirs of a Spacewoman.

Mitchison lived in Kintyre for many years and was an active small farmer. She served on Argyll County Council and was a member of the Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel from 1947 to 1965, and the Highlands and Islands Advisory Consultative Council from 1966 to 1974.

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Travel Light

3.74 avg rating — 3,663 ratings — published 1952 — 17 editions
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Memoirs of a Spacewoman

3.58 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 1962 — 37 editions
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The Corn King and the Sprin...

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To the Chapel Perilous

3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1955 — 7 editions
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Blood of the Martyrs: How t...

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The Blood of the Martyrs

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Early in Orcadia

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“Travel light my child, as the Wanderer travels light, and his love will be with you.”
Naomi Mitchison, Travel Light

“If he could sleep, she thought, sleep through the unhappy months, the heart's hunger, the months of death and cold and not having what you most want, and wake with time gone past and blurred and a new year coming. But perhaps it is too early in the year, she thought after that, and besides, he is not a bear.”
Naomi Mitchison, Travel Light

“Perhaps she did not die,” said Halla, “perhaps her nurse turned into a bear and carried her away into the forest. Perhaps she was brought up by bears and dragons. Perhaps it was better for her in the end than being a king’s child.”
“That was never the story,” said Modolf.
“Forget the story,” said Halla.”
Naomi Mitchison, Travel Light

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