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G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
1868–1955
A versatile English writer, editor, and guidebook author, she moved easily between fiction, biography, and practical books about places and people. Her career also intersected with Walter Besant’s great survey of London, giving her work a strong sense of literary and urban history.
19 Audiobooks
Westminster
by Walter Besant, G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton, Mrs. A. Murray Smith
The Strand District
by Walter Besant, G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton, John Cunningham Geikie
The Kensington District
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Holborn and Bloomsbury
by Walter Besant, G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The Trossachs
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Round the Wonderful World
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The Children's Book of Stars
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The Children's Book of London
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Cornwall
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The Thames
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Normandy
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Austria-Hungary
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Chelsea
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Jane Austen and Her Times
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The Isle of Wight
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Hampstead and Marylebone
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The Thames
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
About the author
Born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in 1868, Geraldine Edith Mitton wrote under the name G. E. Mitton. She became known as a novelist, biographer, editor, and writer of guidebooks, building a career that ranged across several kinds of popular and literary nonfiction.
After moving to London in 1896, she worked with Walter Besant on his wide-ranging survey of the city, and in 1899 she joined the staff of The Bookman. That mix of editorial work and research helped shape the clear, accessible style found in her books.
Mitton also wrote studies of major literary figures, including Jane Austen and Thomas Carlyle, and later collaborated with her husband, Sir James George Scott, on fiction connected with Burma before writing his biography. She died in 1955, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both curiosity and a gift for making history and literature approachable.