“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”
— Amal El-Mohtar on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT – via @NPR
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/258384937/crossroads-and-coins-naomi-mitchisons-travel-light
#Scottish #literature #fantasy #20thcentury #kidlit #womenswriting #Tolkien #NaomiMitchison #folklore #mythology
“Read it now” – Ursula K. Le Guin
Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT – a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing – has just been republished in the UK by Virago
https://store.virago.co.uk/products/travel-light
#Scottish #literature #fantasy #kidlit #20thcentury #womenswriting #ursulaLeGuin #NaomiMitchison #folklore #mythology
“The tartan comedy […] belies the fact that Mackenzie was deeply politicised”
Prof Alan Riach compares the lives, politics, & wildly varied & prolific careers of 2 major 20th-century Scottish writers: Compton Mackenzie & Naomi Mitchison
4/4
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #politics #ScottishPolitics #NaomiMitchison
“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”
—Amal El-Mohtar on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT, for @NPR
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/258384937/crossroads-and-coins-naomi-mitchisons-travel-light
#Scottish #literature #fantasy #dragon #NaomiMitchison #20thcentury #womenwriters
Virago to republish Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT in the UK (already available in the USA via Small Beer Press)
“Read it now” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“I felt, very powerfully, that I had been waiting for Travel Light” – Amal El-Mohtar
#Scottish #literature #fantasy #dragon #NaomiMitchison #20thcentury #womenwriters
Latest in my Scottish SFF blog series: Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light (1952) and When the Bough Breaks (1924).
#ScottishSFF #sf #sff #naomimitchison
Part of my series of posts on Scottish SFF, which began in the run-up to the Glasgow WorldCon and is now continuing on to PictCon 1 in November 2025. This is also part of my series of posts conside…
Wyndham Lewis, Portrait de l’écrivaine écossaise Naomi Mitchison (1933), crayon, aquarelle et lavis sur papier, 36cm x 26cm, coll. privée.
source : https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/made-in-britain-2/portrait-of-naomi-mitchison
<p>Wyndham Lewis</p><p>1882 - 1957</p><p><em>Portrait of Naomi Mitchison</em></p><p><br></p><p>signed <em>Wyndham Lewis.</em> dated <em>1933. </em>and inscribed <em>Naomi Mitchison. </em>(lower left)</p><p>pencil, watercolour and wash on paper</p><p>sheet: 36 by 26cm.; 14¼ by 10¼in.</p><p>framed: 50.5 by 39.5cm.; 19¾ by 15½in.</p><p>Executed in 1933.</p><p><br></p><p>We are grateful to Paul Edwards, author of <em>Wyndham Lewis Painter and Writer</em> (Yale University Press, 2000) and chairman of the <em>Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust</em>, as well as Brigid Peppin and Jo Cottrell for their kind assistance in cataloguing the present work.</p>
“The tartan comedy […] belies the fact that Mackenzie was deeply politicised”
Prof Alan Riach compares the lives, politics, & wildly varied & prolific careers of 2 major 20th-century Scottish writers: Compton Mackenzie & Naomi Mitchison
4/4
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #politics #NaomiMitchison #ComptonMackenzie
Prolific & politically minded
Prof Alan Riach compares the lives, politics, & wildly varied & prolific careers of 2 major 20th-century Scottish writers: Compton Mackenzie & Naomi Mitchison
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #politics #NaomiMitchison
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