Naomi Mitchison

Naomi Mitchison was born in 1897 in Edinburgh into a family of scholars from the upper classes; her brother would become a geneticist and she would marry a future Labour minister, with whom she kept a circle of intellectuals at their home in Kintyre. She published more than ninety books, poems, plays, novels and essays, campaigned for contraception, travelled widely and was adopted as a mother by a people of Botswana. She died in 1999, aged a hundred and one.

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• NovelThe Corn King and the Spring QueenNaomi Mitchison · 1931Literature