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Jenni Calder grew up in the USA and England and has lived in or near Edinburgh since 1971. After gaining degrees from the universities of Cambridge and London, she spent three years in Kenya, teaching at the University of Nairobi and writing. Several years as a part-time lecturer and freelance writer followed. In 1978 she joined what became the National Museums of Scotland, where she worked successively as education officer, publisher, script co-ordinator for the Museum of Scotland (opened 1998) and latterly as Head of Museum of Scotland International which focused on Scottish migration. She retired from NMS in 2001, since when she has returned to her previous freelance existence. She has been an active member of Scottish PEN for over thirty years and was president from 2007-2010. Since 1968 she has published and lectured on Scottish, English and American literary and historical topics. She writes fiction and poetry as Jenni Daiches. She has two daughters, a son and a dog, and now divides her time between South Queensferry and her partners home on Lochfyneside.
Ajay Close is an award-winning journalist as well as a playwright and novelist. Her first novel, Official and Doubtful , was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her fourth, A Petrol Scented Spring , was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Her most recent novel is The Daughter of Lady Macbeth .
Chronicles of Conscience: A Study of Arthur Koestler and George Orwell , Secker and Warburg, 1968
Scott (with Angus Calder), Evans, 1969
There Must be a Lone Ranger: The Myth and Reality of the American West , Hamish Hamilton, 1974
Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction , Thames and Hudson, 1976
Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four , Edward Arnold, 1976
Heroes, from Byron to Guevara , Hamish Hamilton, 1977
The Victorian Home , Batsford, 1977
The Victorian and Edwardian Home in Old Photographs , Batsford, 1979
RLS: A Life Study, Hamish Hamilton, 1980
Stevenson and Victorian Scotland (ed, with an introduction), Edinburgh University Press, 1980
Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four , Open University Press, 1987
Scotland in Trust , Richard Drew, 1990
St Ives by R L Stevenson (new ending), Richard Drew, 1990
No Ordinary Journey (with Ian Bunyan, Dale Idiens, Bryce Wilson), NMS Publishing, 1993
Mediterranean (poems, as Jenni Daiches), Scottish Cultural Press, 1995
The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison, Virago, 1997
Scots in Canada , Luath Press, 2003
Not Nebuchadnezzar: In Search of Identities , Luath Press, 2005
Smoke (poems, as Jenni Daiches), Kettillonia, 2005
Scots in the USA , Luath Press, 2006
Letters from the Great Wall (fiction, as Jenni Daiches), Luath Press, 2006
Frontier Scots: The Scots Who Won the West , Luath Press, 2009
Lost in the Backwoods: Scots and the North American Wilderness , Edinburgh University Press, 2013
Waverley by Walter Scott, adapted for the modern reader, Luath Press, 2014
Forgive (fiction, as Jenni Daiches), Luath Press 2015
Borrowed Time (fiction, as Jenni Daiches), Vagabond Voices, 2016
Essence of Edinburgh: An Eccentric Odyssey , Luath Press, 2018
This edition first published in Great Britain by
Sandstone Press Ltd
Dochcarty Road
Dingwall
Ross-shire
IV15 9UG
Scotland
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First published in 1997 by Virago Press as The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison , within the lifetime of the subject, Naomi Mitchison. The author, Jenni Calder, has now brought the book up to date and revised the original text as she thought appropriate.
Copyright Jenni Calder 1997 and 2019
Editor for this edition: Robert Davidson
The moral right of Jenni Calder to be recognised as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patent Act, 1988.
The publisher acknowledges subsidy from Creative Scotland towards publication of this volume.
ISBN: 978-1-912240-66-1
ISBNe: 978-1-912240-67-8
Cover design by Raspberry Creative
Ebook compilation by Iolaire, Newtonmore
For AMB
For intensity there must be: a focus,
a burning glass, a painful shaping.
POETS AND PROPHETS
What the Human Race is Up To
Images courtesy of the Mitchison family unless otherwise stated
1. The infant Naomi with her parents.
2. Naomi and her brother Jack, 1898.
3. Naomi with her mother, Louisa Kathleen Haldane.
4. Naomi at the age of ten.
5. Naomi and Jack, 1910.
6. Naomi in 1913.
7. Naomi and Aldous Huxley at Cherwell, c.1914.
8. Naomi with Jack (right) and Dick Mitchison.
9. Naomi as a young wife, c.1918.
10. Naomi in the 1920s.
11. The Mitchison family in 1930.
12. Carradale House in Kintyre.
13. Naomi at Carradale in 1938.
14. Naomi at Carradale with Margaret Cole (left)and Elizabeth Longford, August 1939.
15. A Matter Between Macdonalds, performed in Carradale village hall, 1940. Denis Mackintosh is standing second from left.
16. Naomi, c.1940s.
17. At Carradale, Naomi driving the tractor bringing in the hay.
18. Naomi in the USSR with Pioneer Camp children, 1952.Courtesy of the late Margot Kettle
19. Naomi dancing at the Pioneer Camp with Arnold Kettle (left),Richard Mason (far back), Doris Lessing (in dark dress) and Douglas Young (wearing hat). Courtesy of the late Margot Kettle
20. Naomi with Linchwe, after the pre-independence kgotla at Mochudi, September 1966. Photograph Struan Robertson
21. Naomi in the 1960s. Photograph Sandy Grant
22. Naomi making notes at Mochudi, 1960s. Photograph Sandy Grant
23. Dick in the drawing room of Carradale House.
24. Naomi and Dick at their Golden Wedding anniversary, with an entourage of grandchildren.
25. Naomi signing one of her books, Botswana 1966.Photograph Sandy Grant
You dont read a biography of Naomi Mitchison to walk a mile in her shoes. At least, this reader didnt. Its those who knew her I feel for: family, friends, lovers (her own and her husbands), the Highlanders who looked to her as their laird, the Botswanans who adopted her as Mother of the Tribe, and everyone else in the path of this tornado of a woman.
It helped that she had a privileged background and a husband with deep pockets. The Haldane family were Perthshire landowners. Dick Mitchison ended up in the House of Lords. For most of their marriage they had one home in London and another in Carradale on the Kintyre peninsula, furnished from Sothebys and Christies and filled with the house parties so necessary to Naomis happiness. It was not until widowhood in her seventies that she had to worry about money. Luckily, there was a Lowry to sell.
She packed an astonishing amount into her hundred-and-one years: scientific research; journalism; all those books and plays; farming; politics; travelling; seven children; many famous friends; and a fair amount of feminist boat-rocking. If dedicating her second novel to my lover (in 1925!) was the work of a moment, giving women the option of birth control was a cause she promoted for forty years. All this, and she still found the hours to work for change in Scotland and Botswana. Just reading about her left me in need of a lie-down.
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