The first published collection of scholarship on Naomi Mitchison's life and work, including a new, never-before-published short story by Mitchison The first collection of scholarly essays on Naomi Mitchison's life and writing Deals with a broad sweep of Mitchison's life and work, including her historical fiction, science fiction, travels in the USA and USSR, political activism, feminism, and writing for children Includes new research and archival scholarship by UK- and USA-based scholars of twentieth-century literature Features a new, never-before-published story by Mitchison based on her experiences as a delegate to an International P.E.N. conference in Zurich shortly after the Second World War As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland's most important yet understudied twentieth-century writers. This volume showcases the first collection of scholarly essays addressing her diverse literary work, including nine critical essays by scholars from the UK and the USA dealing with aspects such as spirituality, socialism, eugenics, war, the short story, science, feminism, mothering, and decolonisation. The volume also features 'Europe': a previously unknown story by Mitchison, here published for the first time. Aimed at students, scholars, and teachers of literature from undergraduate level upwards, it is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in Mitchison's life and literary legacy.

About the Author
James Purdon is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State (Oxford University Press, 2016), co-editor (with Rex Ferguson and Melissa M. Littlefield) of The Art of Identification: Forensics, Surveillance, Identity (Penn State University Press, 2021), and editor of British Literature in Transition, 1900-1920: A New Age? (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Reviews
"To read Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time is to relive the twentieth century through the writings of one of its most imaginative, inventive and inspiring women. Here, for the first time, eminent critics come together to celebrate?Mitchison as a major writer of Scotland, Britain and the postwar, postimperial world." -Kristin Bluemel, Monmouth University



Book Information
ISBN 9781474494748
Author James Purdon
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press