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    Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison CBE (née Haldane; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet. Often called...
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  • Gilbert Richard Mitchison, Baron Mitchison, CBE, QC (23 March 1894 – 14 February 1970) was a British Labour politician. Born in Staines, Mitchison was educated...
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  • politician Dick Mitchison and the writer Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane). His younger sister Hannah M. Mitchison is also a biologist. "Tim Mitchison (Harvard)...
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  • Labour politician Dick Mitchison (Baron Mitchison of Carradale in the County of Argyll, who died 1970) and his wife, the writer Naomi (née Haldane). His uncle...
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    broadcaster Naomi Klein, Canadian journalist, author, and social activist Naomi Lindstrom, Latin Americanist literary critic Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist...
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  • scientist Murdoch Mitchison FRS, FRSE (1922–2011), British zoologist, the son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999), Scottish...
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  • Spacewoman is a science fiction novel by Scottish novelist and poet Naomi Mitchison published in 1962 by Victor Gollancz Ltd. The novel presents as the...
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  • Doriath" Tolkien 1937, ch. 13, "Not at Home" Carpenter 2023, #144, to Naomi Mitchison, 25 April 1954 Tolkien 1955, Appendix F, "On Translation" Tolkien 1955...
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  • September 1955 Carpenter 2023, #131 to Milton Waldman c. 1951, #154 to Naomi Mitchison 25 September 1954, #156 draft to Robert Murray 4 November 1954, #227...
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  • to the Houghton Mifflin Co., 30 June 1955 Carpenter 2023, #144 to Naomi Mitchison, 25 April 1954 Tolkien 1987, pp. 378–379 Tolkien 1987, pp. 385–448...
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  • 2008. OCLC 241016297. Retrieved 14 May 2020. Carpenter 2023, #154 to Naomi Mitchison, 25 September 1954, #227 to Mrs E. C. Ossen Drijver, 5 January 1961...
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  • secondary world. In 1954, Tolkien wrote in a letter to the novelist Naomi Mitchison that I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally...
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    having coined "clone", "cloning", and "ectogenesis". With his sister, Naomi Mitchison, Haldane was the first to demonstrate genetic linkage in mammals. Subsequent...
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  • and evolutionary biologist; son of John Scott Haldane and brother of Naomi Mitchison née Haldane James Haldane (disambiguation), multiple people John Scott...
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    (4.8 or 5.6 km), which was redefined as 10 kilometer 31 May 1926. Naomi Mitchison, in her autobiographic book You May Well Ask, relates an experience...
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  • the main praised by reviewers and authors including W. H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison on its publication, though the critic Edmund Wilson attacked it in...
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  • and Philip Toynbee sneered at The Lord of the Rings, but others like Naomi Mitchison and Iris Murdoch respected the work, and W. H. Auden championed it...
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  • drawings to develop ideas and guide the text. In a letter to the novelist Naomi Mitchison, Tolkien explained that he drew maps to guide his storytelling: I wisely...
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    Carpenter 2023, #131 to Milton Waldman, late 1951 Carpenter 2023, #144 to Naomi Mitchison, 25 April 1954 Tolkien 1954a, Foreword to the Second Edition Kreeft...
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  • the Common Speech, orka. Tolkien stated in a letter to the novelist Naomi Mitchison that his orcs had been influenced by George MacDonald's The Princess...
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  • lunar surface at the time of the attempt is Naomi Mitchison, a tourist and old flame of Gil's. Gil believes Naomi to be innocent of shooting Penzler, but...
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    Havens" Tolkien 1988, pp. 42, 115 ff. Carpenter 2023, #144, letter to Naomi Mitchison, 25 April 1954 Carpenter 2023, #153, draft of letter to Peter Hastings...
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    roles similar to war gods of classical myth. Carpenter 2023, #154 to Naomi Mitchison, September 1954 Tolkien 1977, "Ainulindalë" Tolkien 1977, ch. 1, "Of...
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    War II. Other significant British novelists include Georgette Heyer, Naomi Mitchison and Mary Renault. Heyer essentially established the historical romance...
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    development of computers. Naomi Mitchison also participated actively in the group. After 1936, Heard broke with Mitchison over her outspoken support...
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    2023, #131 to Milton Waldman, written c. 1951 Carpenter 2023, #154 to Naomi Mitchison, September 1954 Carpenter 2023, #153 to P. Hastings, September 1954...
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    mode, such as Olaf Stapledon, J. D. Beresford, S. Fowler Wright, and Naomi Mitchison, all drew on Wells's example. Wells was also an important influence...
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  • Spillane Snake, a 1975 novel by James H. McClure Snake!, a 1976 novel by Naomi Mitchison The Snake, a 1978 novel by Morton Freedgood Snakes, a 1986 novel by...
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  • Milburn (born 1973), actor Hugh Miles (born 1977), journalist and author Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane, 1897–1999), novelist and poet Philip Moore, Baron Moore...
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  • #121 to Allen & Unwin, 13 July 1949 Carpenter 2023, Letter #154 to Naomi Mitchison, 25 September 1954 Carpenter 2023, Letter #131 to Milton Waldman, late...
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