Biography
Naomi Haldane was natural around Edinburgh in 1897, the girl of the physiologist John Haldane (1860 – 1936) and his married woman Louisa. Her sr. brother was a biologist J.B.S. Haldane (1892 – 1964). Naomi was educated at a Dragon School, Oxford and began a science degree at the university in that city, but gave this as much as get the nurse.

Around 1916 Naomi married the barrister and later Labour politician Dick Mitchison (1894–1970) and it lived from either 1937 at Carradale House at Carradale in Kintyre. It experienced vi babies; tetrad sons; Geoffrey (1918-1927) Denis (born 1919) later the prof of bacteriology, Murdoch (born 1922), and Avrion (born 1928), both prof of zoology. Their girl were Sonja & Valentine.

Mitchison was the prolific writer, completing more than Ninety books inside her life, through the people of styles & genres. These include historical novels like her number one novel The Conquered (1923), Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925) and A Corn King & a Spring Queen (1931), The Bull Calves (1947) and A Young Alexander a Wonderful (1960); fantasy such as Graeme & a Dragon (1954); science fiction such as Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) and Guide 3 (1975); non-fiction such as African Heroes (1968), together with children's novels, poetry, travel and the 3-volume autobiography. Doubtless her virtually all controversial function, We Have Been Warned was published in 1935 and explored sexual behaviour, including rape and abortion. A book was rejected by various publishers and subject to censorship. Mitchison was the Life Fellow of the Eugenics Society.

Mitchison was besides the vocal candidate for women's rights, advocating birth control, and was also active in local government in Scotland (1947 – 1976). She acted the spokeswoman for the island communities of Scotland and became an advisor to the Bakgatla tribe of Botswana. She was likewise a good friend of the writer J.R.R. Tolkien and she was one of the proof readers of The Lord of the Rings

Within 1964, Dick Mitchisin was created a life peer on retirement for his political act, by using Naomi so becoming Lady Mitchison. Continuing to write into her eighties, she died at Carradale at the age of 101.

Bibliography

Biographies of Mitchison

Naomi Mitchison: The Life story by Jill Benton (London: Pandora, 1990)

Autobiography

Mitchison's autobiography is around iii area.

A lot Vary On this button: Maidenhood & Marriage (1975) When It Was: An Autobiography 1897-1918 (1975) You May Swell Ask: The Memoir, 1920-1940 (1979)