Reference and contact details: GB 0559 MS6
Title: Papers of Lady Naomi Mitchison, 1897-1999, Scottish novelist and poet
Dates of creation: 1976
Held at: Stirling University Library
Extent: 0.01 metres
Name of creator: Mitchison, Lady Naomi (1897-1999): novelist and poet
Level of Description: fonds
Language of Material: eng

Administrative/Biographical History

Lady Naomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh on 1 November 1897 and died at her home at Carradale in Kintyre on 11 January 1999. She was the daughter of the physiologist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892-1964), and grew up in a progressive home as a freethinking feminist Fabian. She was a peace campaigner, and her interest in social and political affairs included birth control. She was a member of Argyll County Council, 1945-1965, and of the Highland and Island Advisory Council, 1965-1975. A prolific author, her many books included some historical works and some novels, as well as various volumes of memoirs. She travelled widely, and because of her interest in African affairs she was made Tribal Adviser and Mother to the Bakgatla of Botswana in 1963. She married Gilbert Mitchison (1890-1970), who was the Labour MP for Kettering Division, Northants, from 1945-1964. He was created a life peer in 1964, and was a Government minister from 1964-1966.

Scope and Content

First draft of short story (typescript with author's corrections), Call Me, by Naomi Mitchison c1976.

Administrative Information

The arrangement of this material reflects the original order in which it was received

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Received from the creator

Accruals

None expected

Access Conditions

Open

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