The Delicate Fire

By:

Naomi Mitchison

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Naomi Mitchison Library

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The Delicate Fire illustrates a fundamental change in Naomi Mitchison's work. The early stories are set in ancient Greece, like many before them. But here Mitchison effectively says farewell to that setting with accounts of the worlds of Sappho and 'Lovely Mantinea'. By the end, she seems wholly turned to the twentieth century - a new departure for her - tackling subjects such as the General Strike of 1926 and contemporaneous Hunger marches, and battles against censorship. This shift marks her politicisation, her growing fear of fascism, but more personally also the end of her long affair with a distinguished scholar of the ancient world. She turns away from Greece for good. She turns to the present, and will spend the thirties warning against fascism. Isobel Murray is Emeritus Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen

Author Biography:

Naomi Mitchison [1897-1999] was a literary phenomenon. Tireless in her writing, and unafraid and often highly unconventional in her opinions, she left an extraordinary legacy. There are novels for adults and children, based on the classical ancient world, and on the immediately contemporary, stressing at different times her deep interest in Scottish and African societies, and her concerns for the future. She also wrote poetry and plays, memoirs, a war diary, political articles and reviews, and non-fiction - dealing with issues as different as birth control, North Sea Oil and GM crops; Isobel Murray is Emeritus Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen.

Release date NZ

July 31st, 2012

Author

Naomi Mitchison

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Isobel Murray

Edition

Revised ed.

Illustrations

black & white illustrations

Pages

374

Series

The Naomi Mitchison Library

Dimensions

152x229x21

ISBN-13

9781849210379

Product ID

20790123

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