Author:Naomi May Margaret Mitchison

Naomi May Margaret Mitchison
(1897–1999)

Naomi May Margaret Mitchison

Works

Autobiography

Mitchison's autobiography is in three parts:

• Small Talk: Memoirs of an Edwardian Childhood (1973; reprinted, with an introductory essay by Ali Smith, Kennedy & Boyd, 2009)
• All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage (1975) [Small Talk and All Change Here were republished as a single volume As It Was: An Autobiography 1897–1918 in 1975]
• You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. London: Fontana Paperbacks. 1986 [1979]. ISBN 978-0-00654-193-6. 
• Mucking Around (1981)
• Among You Taking Notes. The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison (1986) (Autobiographical sketches from Mitchison's diaries during the Second World War, written for "Mass Observation", selected and edited by Dorothy Sheridan.)

Novels

• The Conquered (1923; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2009)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2011)
• The Hostages (1930)
• The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931)
• Boys and Girls and Gods (1931)
• The Price of Freedom (1931)
• Powers of Light (1932)
• The Delicate Fire (1933; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2012)
• Beyond this Limit (1935; 'Pictures by Wyndham Lewis and Words by Naomi Mitchison')
• We Have Been Warned (1935; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2012)
• The Blood of the Martyrs (1939; reprinted in 1989)
• The Bull Calves (1947; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2013)
• The Big House (1950; reprinted, with an introduction by Moira Burgess, Kennedy & Boyd, 2010)
• Travel Light (Faber and Faber, 1952; Virago Press, 1985; Penguin Books, 1987; Small Beer Press, 2005; reprinted in the UK with The Varangs' Saga, and an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2009)
• Graeme and the Dragon (1954
• The Land the Ravens Found (1955)
• To the Chapel Perilous (1955)
• Little Boxes (1956)
• Behold Your King (1957; reprinted, with an introduction by Moira Burgess, Kennedy & Boyd, 2009)
• Judy and Lakshmi (London: Collins, 1959)
• The Young Alexander the Great (1960)
• The Rib of the Green Umbrella (London: Collins, 1960; illustrated by Edward Ardizzone)
• Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2011)
• The Fairy who Couldn't Tell a Lie (1963)
• Ketse and the Chief (1965)
• When We Become Men (1965; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2009)
• Friends and Enemies (1966)
• Big Surprise (1967)
• Family at Ditlabeng (1969)
• Don't Look Back (1969)
• The Far Harbour (1969)
• Sun and Moon (1970)
• Cleopatra's People (1972; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2010)
• Sunrise Tomorrow: A Story of Botswana (1973)
• Danish Teapot (1973)
• Solution Three. Feminist Press at CUNY. 1995 [First published 1975]. ISBN 978-1-55861-096-5. Afterword by Susan Squier (1995) 
• Snake! (1976)
• Two Magicians (with Dick Mitchison, 1979)
• The Vegetable War (1980)
• Not by Bread Alone (1983)
• Early in Orcadia (1987)
• Images of Africa (1987)
• As It Was (1988)
• The Oath-takers (1991)
• Sea-green Ribbons (1991)
• The Dark Twin (with Marion Campbell, 1998)

Collections

• When the Bough Breaks and Other Stories (1924; reprinted by Pomona Press, 2006)
• The Laburnum Branch (1926)
• Black Sparta (1928)
• Barbarian Stories (1929)
• Beyond This Limit: Selected Shorter Fiction of Naomi Mitchison (1935; Scottish Academic Press, 1986; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2008)
• The Fourth Pig (1936)
• Five Men and a Swan (1957)
• The Brave Nurse: And Other Stories (1977)
• Cleansing of the Knife: And Other Poems (poems) (1979)
• Images of Africa (1980)
• What Do You Think Yourself: and Other Scottish Short Stories (1982)
• A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems (poems) (1990)

Plays

• Nix-Nought-Nothing: Four Plays for Children (illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, 1928)
• The Price of Freedom. A play in three acts (with Lewis Gielgud Mitchison, 1931)
• An End and a Beginning (1937)

Non-fiction

• Anna Comnena (1928; biography – reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2009)
• Vienna Diary (1934; reprinted by Kennedy & Boyd, 2009)
• The Moral Basis of Politics (1938; Reprinted 1971)
• "My farming and my neighbours". The Countryman 30: 23–6. 1944. 
• Return to the Fairy Hill (1966)
• African Heroes (1968)
• The Africans: From the Earliest Times to the Present (1971)
• A Life for Africa: The Story of Bram Fischer. 1973. OCLC 705423. 
• Oil for the Highlands? (1974)
• Margaret Cole, 1893–1980 (1982)
• Rising Public Voice: Women in Politics Worldwide (1995)
• Essays and Journalism. Volume 2: Carradale (Kennedy & Boyd, 2009), edited and introduced by Moira Burgess