TY - STAND KW - Scottish author KW - Female author AU - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) AB -

The novel describes a future England in which local fascists rise up against the ruling socialists, killing individualism or interning them in camps. The socialists who can flee to Scotland with hopes of reaching the Soviet Union. Women are leaders on both sides, and much of the novel focuses on relationships among individuals within each group as well as between individuals in each group.

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Scottish female author (1897-1999).

C7 - 1935 CY - London DA - 01/1935 LA - eng N1 -

Two chapters were originally published as “Interlude (From an unpublished Novel).” The Modern Scot (St. Andrews, Scotland) 4.2 (July 1933): 100-04; and as “Chapter from an Unpublished Novel.” The New Oxford Outlook (Oxford, England) 1.3 (February 1934): 274-87. 

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The novel describes a future England in which local fascists rise up against the ruling socialists, killing individualism or interning them in camps. The socialists who can flee to Scotland with hopes of reaching the Soviet Union. Women are leaders on both sides, and much of the novel focuses on relationships among individuals within each group as well as between individuals in each group.

PB - Constable & Co PP - London PY - 1935 EP - 554 pp. TI - We Have Been Warned. A Novel ER -