NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – occurs annually every November. Join us each week as we celebrate the life of a novelist represented in the University of Maryland Special Collections!
This week’s novelist is Hope Mirrlees. Her fiction includes Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists, Lud-in-the-Mist, and Counterplot. Although printed copies of Mirrlees’s work are rare, Lud-in-the-Mist gained more recent popularity as a science fiction novel.
Learn more about Hope Mirrlees
Resources
Hope Mirrlees papers at UMD
Collected Poems, by Hope Mirrlees; ed. Sandeep Parmar.
‘The Lure of the Archive’: Dr Sandeep Parmar on the Archives of Hope Mirrlees and Mina Loy
The Carcanet Blog
Hope-in-the-mist : the extraordinary career and mysterious life of Hope Mirrlees
by Michael Swanwick (nearest copy available at Library of Congress)
Jane Harrison Collection: the Hope Mirrlees Papers
Newnham College Archives, Cambridge
T.S. Eliot Collection and Lady Ottoline Morrell papers at UMD
Neil Gaiman reccommends Hope Mirrlees’s Lud-in-the-Mist