You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940

MITCHISON, NAOMI

Literature & Fiction

Flamingo

<p>Halla, a king's daughter cast out by her evil stepmother, is raised by bears and dragons, and meets the Wanderer, a mysterious figure who sends her on a long journey.</p>

Travel Light (Virago Modern Classics)

Literary

Penguin??Books

<p>From September 1939 to August 1945, Naomi Mitchison kept a diary at the request of the social research organization Mass-Observation.</p>

Among You Taking Notes...: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945

Biographies & Memoirs

Sheridan, Dorothy

Community & Culture

Oxford University Press

Solution three (Dobson science fiction)

LGBTQ+ Books

Dobson

The Young Alexander the Great

Roy Publishers

African heroes (Heroic retellings from history and legend)

Children's Books

Bodley Head

Sun and moon (Acorn library)

Small Talk... avoids the temptation of a full-blown 'My Life and Times' type of autobiography and presents instead a recreation of  childhood years in Oxford before the First World War - a child's-eye view of the family, the friends, the servants, the pets and the holidays in Scotland and Cornwall that made up that childhood. It is as much concerned with her own development as an amateur field botanist as with the occasions when the adult world intruded, when 'Uncle Richard' (Lord Haldane) might lead the younger members of the family out to the wash-house to watch the messy business of heating wax to take the impression of the Great Seal of England. If Lord Baden-Powell and Andrew Lang appear briefly, it is less as famous figures of the period, but rather as irritating visitors with passions either for tying knots or talking about fairies who interrupted the pleasures of raiding the kitchen garden for fruit, or reading at night behind the curtains of the drawing-room. There are glimpses of her reactions to scientific theories, as they reached her in repercussions from her father's work, and to the High Tory politics of her formidable mother. Small Talk... is a precise, vivid picture of the people and manners of a world which has receded so rapidly that it is now further from the experience of people today as the other side of the moon. In another sense, though, it is a timeless picture of childhood itself.  The introductory essay by Ali Smith "The Woman From The Big House" was first first published in Chapman 50.

Small Talk: Memories Of An Edwardian Childhood

History

Europe

A distinguished British writer presents sketches of eleven African heroes ranging from Sundiata, the king of ancient Mali, to Cetshwayo, a Zulu warrior king

African Heroes

Africa

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The Corn King and the Spring Queen,

Contemporary

Scholarly Press

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