Geraldine Mitton

Geraldine Edith Mitton (14 October 1868 – 25 March 1955), pen name G. E. Mitton, was an English novelist, biographer, editor, and guide-book writer.^[1] Born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, she was the third daughter of Rev. Henry Arthur Mitton, a master of Sherburn Hospital.^[2] In 1896, she moved to London, where she worked with Walter Besant on his survey of London.^[2] In 1899 she joined the staff of the publishing company A & C Black, where she was on the editorial staff of Who's Who.^[3] She married colonial administrator Sir George Scott in 1920, becoming his third wife.^[2] She collaborated with Scott on several novels set in Burma, and wrote his biography, Scott of the Shan Hills, which was published in 1936, the year after his death.^[2]

Mitton in the early 1930s

Works

• 1902 The Opportunist
• 1902 Chelsea: The Fascination of London^[4]
• 1905 The Scenery of London, illustrated by Herbert M. Marshall
• 1907 The Children's Book of Stars
• 1907 A Bachelor Girl in Burma^[5]
• 1909 The Book of the Railway, illustrated by Allan Stewart
• 1910 The Thames, illustrated by E. W. Haslehust
• 1911 Where Great Men Lived in London
• 1911 The Isle of Wight
• 1915 Cornwall
• 1915 Austria-Hungary
• 1916 " The Lost Cities of Ceylon", published John Murray, London. Reprint 1928.
• 1920 Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, published by A&C Black Ltd.
• 1936 Scott of the Shan Hills

Jointly with J. G. Scott:

• 1913 In the Grip of the Wild Wa
• 1922 The Green Moth
• 1923 A Frontier Man
• 1924 Under an Eastern Sky