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fell in love with Oxford classical scholar H. T. Wade Gery
, whom she nicknamed Widg; they first met in 1920.
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
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Textual Production
Naomi Mitchison
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published Black Sparta: Greek Stories, a volume of poems and stories about the ancient world, with a dedication to two real historians, H. T. Wade Gery
and Vivian Wade Gery
.
Mitchison, Naomi. Black Sparta: Greek Stories. The Travellers’ Library, Jonathan Cape, 1931.
Mitchison, Naomi. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Hodder and Stoughton, 1967.
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she thanks both H. T. Wade Gery
and her husband (identified by their initials) for talking through her subject with her. She finished the manuscript at...