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Writer of Novels, Short Stories, Children's fiction, Plays, Screenplays, History, Children's non-fiction, Poetry. Born 1897, Scotland. An author whose works span seven decades, Naomi Mitchison originally wanted to be a scientist. An incomplete education made her turn to writing. Served as a volunteer nurse during WW I. She helped establish the first birth control clinics in London, and became involved in political action with the counter-revolution in Austria in 1934 and with sharecroppers in Arkansas in 1935. She travelled to the Soviet Union in 1932 and 1952. Active in Scottish politics.<p>As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then</p>
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<p>She writes vividly and movingly</p>
DAILY TELEGRAPH
<p>She writes enviably, with the kind of apparently casual precision which, though it can be achieved by effort, far more often comes by grace</p>
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