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Obituary: Naomi Mitchison, 1897-1999
An obituary for writer and activist Naomi Mitchison is provided. Mitchsion is profiled.
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Figures in a Landscape
Scott and Stevenson both wrote “road novels,” fiction that takes its characters on actual and metaphorical journeys through Scotland as a means of drawing together disparate cultures and conflicting histories. Journeys are rooted deep in Scottish literary traditions, and the palpable diversity in the structure of the land, MacDiarmid’s “multiform” Scotland, has been a distinguishing feature of the Scottish literary imagination as it has of the narrative of Scotland’s past. Scott and Stevenson both draw on this rich tradition, consistently exposing their characters to new landscapes and alien environments. How their protagonists respond to the “other” is organic to experience
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More Than Merely Ourselves
By the time Naomi Mitchison’s best-known novel, The Corn King and the Spring Queen, was published in 1931, she had a reputation as an unconventional and distinctive writer.¹ It was her third novel, and she had also published several volumes of her short stories, a volume of poetry, and books for children. Her fiction was set in the past, but the tone and approach she adopted were fresh and challenging. She was dealing in modern issues, and with situations and emotions that were very much a part of her own life. The distinctiveness of her fiction was partly the result
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