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Essays and Journalism 5 - Abroad
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| Naomi Mitchison. |
| ISBN 9781849210140 |
| SERIES The Naomi Mitchison Library |
| Paperback 518 pages |
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| Published December 2023
UK Price £24.95
US Price $29.95 |
Volume 5 in the seven-volume edition of Naomi Mitchison’s Essays and Journalism.
Naomi Mitchison travelled extensively outside Britain, writing freely about her adventures and tribulations, her disturbing experiences and those of others.
This volume includes autobiographical material and newspaper reporting, as well as more detached observations, written from 1929 through to the mid-1980s, and covers every continent except South America.
Geographically, the articles are divided into sections on Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, The Mediterranean and Middle East, and The United States. A broadly chronological arrangement is followed within each section.
Many pieces debate, compare and contrast topics or circumstances, and their location might be considered arbitrary.
Botwana (Bechunaland) occupied much of her attention for a time, and her writing there is collected in Volume 4.
The writing career of Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) stretched over some seventy years, encompassing at least seventy works of fiction as well as non-fiction, poetry and plays.
Almost unknown, however, is the mass of shorter prose pieces - journalism, essays, polemics, reminiscences - which Mitchison produced during her long career.
There are many hundreds of these pieces, covering a tremendously wide range of topics, an untapped resource both in Mitchison biography and in the wider field of social history.
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