Английская Википедия:Isabel Mary Mitchell

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Isabel Mary Mitchell Шаблон:Postnominals (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

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]

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