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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]
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- 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
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