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  • The Woman's Historical Novel The Woman's Historical Novel
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    The Woman's Historical Novel

    In the first major study of British women writers' use of the historical novel, Diana Wallace tracks its development across the twentieth century. She combines a comprehensive survey with detailed...
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  • Five Men and a Swan Five Men and a Swan
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    Five Men and a Swan

    This collection, which Naomi Mitchison published in 1957, is recognisably a 'Carradale book', containing as it does vivid and realistic stories and poems of the landscape and the people. Mitchison...
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  • Cleopatra's People Cleopatra's People
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    Cleopatra's People

    When Naomi Mitchison, queen of the historical novel, undertook Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, already symbol of a great love story, something remarkable was bound to ensue. But Mitchison did not choose...
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  • Beyond This Limit Beyond This Limit
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    Beyond This Limit

    Naomi Mitchison published her first novel, The Conquered, in 1923. In her more than seventy succeeding books she has produced an extraordinary out-put, especially in the novel and the short story...
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  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 3 Essays and Journalism, Volume 3
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    Essays and Journalism, Volume 3

    Naomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh, and from at least the late 1930s onwards she was not only passionately interested in Scottish landscape and history but involved in Scottish politics and...
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  • Uncollected Stories 1923-1997 Uncollected Stories 1923-1997
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    Uncollected Stories 1923-1997

    In her lifetime, Naomi Mitchison wrote over two hundred and fifty pieces of fiction which can be described as short stories. Many of these were brought together in the stand-alone collections: When...
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  • Essays and Journalism, Volume 5 Essays and Journalism, Volume 5
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    Essays and Journalism, Volume 5

    Naomi Mitchison travelled extensively outside Britain, writing freely about her adventures and tribulations, her disturbing experiences and those of others. This volume includes autobiographical...
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  • Imagining the Pagan Past Imagining the Pagan Past
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    Imagining the Pagan Past

    Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the...
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  • The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2004 The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2004
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    The Year's Work in Medievalism, 2004

    The Year's Work in Medievalism: 2004 is based upon but not restricted to the 2004 proceedings of the annual International Conference on Medievalism, organized by the Director of Conferences for...
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    Serious Minds
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    Serious Minds

    An elegant, revealing portrait of a remarkable family that helped to shape the politics, arts and sciences of modern Britain.The Times hailed Richard Burdon Haldane as 'one of the most powerful .....
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  • Vienna Diary 1934 Vienna Diary 1934
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    Vienna Diary 1934

    On February 24th, 1934 - shortly after the civil war in Austria and the defeat of the Socialists - Naomi Mitchison left Eng­land on a visit to Vienna in order to do what she could to relieve the...
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  • The Clouds Are Big with Mercy The Clouds Are Big with Mercy
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    The Clouds Are Big with Mercy

    By 1937, many people, both employed and unemployed, were anticipating war, but from 1939 they were all thrust into it. Fred Urquhart's second collection of short stories reflects this. The young men...
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