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
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