Isabel Mary Mitchell

Isabel Mary Mitchell MBE (1893–1973)[1] was an Australian known for her services to literature.[2] She went blind in the 1940s and wrote about this in "Uncharted country [braille] : aspects of life in blindness."[3] She wrote eight novels after losing her sight through the use of dictaphone and typewriter.[4]

Mitchell also wrote three detective novels[1] under the name Josephine Plain.[5] The Secret of the Sandbank was first published in the Melbourne afternoon daily newspaper The Herald in instalments.[6]

Mitchell was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1970 for service to literature.[7]

Selected works

  • Mitchell, Mary (1934), A Warning to Wantons:A Fantastic Romance Setting Forth the Not Undeserved but Awful Fate Which Befell a Minx, Doubleday Doran
  • Mitchell, Mary (1935), The Secret of the Sandbank, Thornton Butterworth
  • Mitchell, Mary (1935), The Secret of the Snows, Thornton Butterworth
  • Plain, Josephine (1936), The Pazenger Problem, London Thornton Butterworth Ltd

Family

She was the daughter of Edward Fancourt Mitchell.[8] She was the sister of Janet Charlotte Mitchell and Agnes Eliza Fraser Mitchell, who wrote as Nancy Adams.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Australian Dictionary of Biography
  2. ^ SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, IST JANUARY 1970
  3. ^ National Library of Australia Trove
  4. ^ Described and Captioned Media Program
  5. ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 133.
  6. ^ "NEW THRILLING DETECTIVE STORY -- FIRST INSTALMENT BEGINS TODAY". The Herald. No. 17, 465. Victoria, Australia. 6 May 1933. p. 23. Retrieved 11 September 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Australia list: "No. 45000". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1969. pp. 35–40.
  8. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography for Edward Fancourt Mitchell
  9. ^ "Nancy Adams". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 29 March 2023.


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