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“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
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#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
“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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@qblueheart @naga @bookstodon You might enjoy #MemoirsOfASpacewoman by #NaomiMitchison. It was allegedly an inspiration for #StarTrek. Along with #JamesWhite’s #SectorGeneral series.
It's hard to describe the thrill of discovering "Travel Light" by Naomi Mitchison. Fortunately Amal El-Mohtar can. This is the article that led me to it.
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/258384937/crossroads-and-coins-naomi-mitchisons-travel-light
#Book #NaomiMitchison #AmalElMohtar #Fantasy #HistoricalFiction #BookCover #bookstodon
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«Le donne del millennio»: un’antologia con…
… Ursula Le Guin e altre
di Giulia Abbate - Libri da recuperare: dodicesima puntata (*)
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https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/le-donne-del-millennio-unantologia-con/
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#Articoli #Libri #CherryWilder #CynthiaFelice #DianaPaxson #ElyzabethLynn #GiuliaAbbate #JoanVinge #librifuoricatalogo #MarilynHacker #MillennialWomen #NaomiMitchison #nonviolenza #recuperabili #UrsulaLeGuin #VirginiaKidd
«Le donne del millennio»: un’antologia con…
… Ursula Le Guin e altre
di Giulia Abbate - Libri da recuperare: dodicesima puntata (*)
«
https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/le-donne-del-millennio-unantologia-con/
#bottegadelbarbieri #labottegadelbarbieri
#Articoli #Libri #CherryWilder #CynthiaFelice #DianaPaxson #ElyzabethLynn #GiuliaAbbate #JoanVinge #librifuoricatalogo #MarilynHacker #MillennialWomen #NaomiMitchison #nonviolenza #recuperabili #UrsulaLeGuin #VirginiaKidd