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Naomi Mitchison

1897 - 1999

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Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison (née Haldane; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet. Often called a doyenne of Scottish literature, she wrote more than 90 books of historical and science fiction, travel writing and autobiography. Her husband Dick Mitchison's life peerage in 1964 entitled her to call herself Lady Mitchison, but she never did. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naomi Mitchison has received more than 217,228 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Naomi Mitchison is the 6,289th most popular writer (down from 5,918th in 2019), the 5,365th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,382nd in 2019) and the 609th most popular British Writer.

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  • 220k

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  • 42.12

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

When the bough breaks, and other stories
English Short stories, Fiction, Social life and customs
1924
The blood of the martyrs
Church history, Fiction, History
1939
The Corn King and the Spring Queen
Fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, historical
Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic.
1931
Cloud cuckoo land
Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Greece, fiction
1925
Travel light
Human-animal relationships, Abandoned children, Girls
From the dark ages to modern times, from the dragons of medieval forests to Constantinople, this is a fantastic and philosophical fairy-tale journey that will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones, and T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone.
1952
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Fiction in English, Fiction in English 1900-1945 Texts, English fiction
Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genetics. Her novels did not tend to demonstrate this, and she did not publish a Science Fiction novel until almost forty years into her fiction-writing career. This novel works effectively for readers who usually eschew the genre and prefer more traditional narratives. Explorers like Mary are an elite class who consider curiosity to be Terrans' supreme gift, and in the novel she more than once takes risks that may destroy her life. Her voice, as she records her adventures and experiments, is individual, attractive and memorable.
1962
The blood of the martyrs
Church history, Fiction, History
1939
The delicate fire
1933
Travel light
Human-animal relationships, Abandoned children, Girls
From the dark ages to modern times, from the dragons of medieval forests to Constantinople, this is a fantastic and philosophical fairy-tale journey that will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones, and T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone.
1952
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
Fiction in English, Fiction in English 1900-1945 Texts, English fiction
Naomi Mitchison, daughter of a distinguished scientist, sister of geneticist J B S Haldane, was always interested in the sciences, especially genetics. Her novels did not tend to demonstrate this, and she did not publish a Science Fiction novel until almost forty years into her fiction-writing career. This novel works effectively for readers who usually eschew the genre and prefer more traditional narratives. Explorers like Mary are an elite class who consider curiosity to be Terrans' supreme gift, and in the novel she more than once takes risks that may destroy her life. Her voice, as she records her adventures and experiments, is individual, attractive and memorable.
1962
When the bough breaks, and other stories
English Short stories, Fiction, Social life and customs
1924
The Corn King and the Spring Queen
Fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, historical
Set over two thousand years ago on the clam and fertile shores of the Black Sea, The Corn King and the Spring Queen tells of ancient civilisations where tenderness, beauty and love vie with brutality and dark magic.
1931

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Naomi Mitchison ranks 6,289 out of 7,302. Before her are Rami Saari, P. C. Cast, Susan Glaspell, Karel Schoeman, Richard A. Knaak, and Mathias Énard. After her are Sybille Bedford, Helen Hunt Jackson, Tim O'Brien, Abby Mann, Paul Klebnikov, and Delfina Bunge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Naomi Mitchison ranks 304. Before her are Hope Emerson, Émile Albrecht, Tilly Edinger, Hermione Gingold, Edwin Graves, and Monty Banks. After her are Cecil Parker, Margaret Chase Smith, Robert Riskin, Muriel Freeman, William Gott, and Richard Russell Jr.. Among people deceased in 1999, Naomi Mitchison ranks 295. Before her are Vanessa Brown, Teodor Kocerka, Jackson C. Frank, John Cannon, Josef Doležal, and Hillary Brooke. After her are Diane Foster, Brian Moore, Elliot Richardson, Clayton Moore, Big L, and Laurie Scott.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Naomi Mitchison ranks 5,365 out of 8,785. Before her are Sajid Javid (1969), Alan Mullery (1941), George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (1962), Anne Reid (1935), Mel Smith (1952), and Steve Hewitt (1971). After her are Barriemore Barlow (1949), Churchill Babington (1821), Walter Crickmer (1899), Craig David (1981), Edgar Syers (1863), and John Graves Simcoe (1752).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Naomi Mitchison ranks 609. Before her are George Farquhar (1677), Howard Jacobson (1942), Dorothy Wordsworth (1771), Caroline Norton (1808), Charlotte Smith (1749), and Polly Samson (1962). After her are Lascelles Abercrombie (1881), Caryl Churchill (1938), Joanna Baillie (1762), Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Brian Moore (1921), and Alastair Reynolds (1966).

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