We Have Been Warned. A Novel

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1935
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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.

Pagination
554 pp.
Published Date

1935

Publisher
Constable & Co
Place Published
London
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1935 Mitchison, Naomi [Margaret] (1897-1999). We Have Been Warned. A Novel. London: Constable & Co. 554 pp. Two chapters were originally published as “Interlude (From an unpublished Novel).” The Modern Scot (St. Andrews, Scotland) 4.2 (July 1933): 100-04; and as “Chapter from an Unpublished Novel.”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. L, TNJ, WVaU

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. Scottish female author.

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Two chapters were originally published as “Interlude (From an unpublished Novel).” The Modern Scot (St. Andrews, Scotland) 4.2 (July 1933): 100-04; and as “Chapter from an Unpublished Novel.”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. 

Author Note

Scottish female author (1897-1999).

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