Naomi Mitchison

Naomi Mitchison

Mitchison in c.1925
Mitchison in c.1925
BornNaomi Mary Margaret Haldane
(1897-11-01)1 November 1897
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died11 January 1999(1999-01-11) (aged 101)
Carradale, Scotland
OccupationBiologist, nurse, writer
LanguageEnglish
EducationSociety of Oxford Home Students
Period1914–15
GenreHistorical, science fiction, travelogue and autobiography
Spouse
(m. 1916; died 1970)
ChildrenGeoffrey Mitchison (1918–1927)
Denis Mitchison (1919–2018)
Murdoch Mitchison (1922–2011)
Avrion Mitchison (1928–2022)
Lois Mitchison
Valentine Mitchison
Clemency Mitchison
RelativesJohn Scott Haldane (father)
J. B. S. Haldane (brother)

Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison CBE (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.[1] Her husband Dick Mitchison's life peerage in 1964 entitled her to call herself Lady Mitchison, but she never did.[2][3] Her 1931 work, The Corn King and the Spring Queen, is seen by some as the prime 20th-century historical novel.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference scottish-places.info was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Maslen 2015.
  3. ^ Calder 1997.
  4. ^ Longford 1999.