future in which her daughters would be able to "have children by several chosen fathers, uncensured". Naomi and Dick had seven children. Their four sons were Geoffrey (1918–1927), who died of meningitis, Denis (1919–2018), a professor of bacteriology, Murdoch (1922–2011), and Avrion (1928–2022), both professors of zoology. Their three daughters were Lois (born 1926), Valentine (born 1928), and Clemency, who died in 1940, shortly after her birth. Between 1923 and 1939, they lived at Rivercourt House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London. They bought the Carradale House at Carradale in Kintyre in 1939, where they lived for the rest of their lives. The house was frequented by people of all sorts: lords, ladies, politicians, writers, neighbours, fishermen and farmers. She and Denis MacIntosh, a local fisherman, wrote a documentary, Men and Herring: A Documentary, in 1949. Ten years later this was adapted for BBC Television as a docudrama, Spindrift. Reviews Fullerton, Ian (1980), review of Images of Africa, Cencrastus No. 4, Winter 1980–1981, pp. 37 and 38, References Citations Sources Further reading Smith, Donald (1983), You May Well Ask: Nine Decades of Mitchison, Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 13, Summer 1983, pp. 14–17, Smith, Donald (1983), Naomi Mitchison and Neil Gunn: A Highland Friendship, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 13, Summer 1983, pp. 17 – 20, External links Finding aid to Naomi Mitchison papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Literary Encyclopedia detailed entry, which says she had seven children and that she received her CBE in 1981 Guardian obituary, which states she had six children, and that she received her CBE in 1985 Naomi Mitchison – a queen, a saint and a shaman, by Neil Ascherton, Guardian 17 January 1999 Spartacus entry The Scotsman biographical profile Another entry from Canongate publishers Interview 15 April 1989 with Naomi Mitchison, focusing on her Arthurian novel "To the Chapel Perilous" (1955) Gilbert "Dick" Mitchison entry Haldane genealogy her grandparents were Robert Haldane of Cloan (1805–77) and his second wife Mary Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson (d. 1925) Partial Bibliography Naomi Mitchison – Towards A Bibliography Extensive ongoing bibliography project by Violet Williams (NM's late secretary), Roger Robinson, and Caroline Mullan – lists over 2000 separate items some literary information, and useful links British Honours The Diary Junction Blog Diary Junction website with links Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York, files of her writings whilst in Botswana An Experimental Life: Books by