Naomi Mitchison
Mitchison was a Scottish writer of extraordinary longevity and range, whose historical novels of classical antiquity and early Scotland combine feminist intelligence with vivid historical imagination. The Corn King and the Spring Queen is her masterpiece.
Works
- The Corn King and the Spring QueenHistorical novel of ancient ritual kingship and tribal politics in Bronze Age Scotland
- The Bull CalvesHistorical novel of a Scottish family divided during the Jacobite period of conflict
- Memoirs of a SpacewomanScience fiction novel of a female explorer conducting xenobiological research across alien worlds
- Travel LightFantasy novel following a princess fleeing her home across magical lands
- Cloud Cuckoo Land