![]() Rebecca Middleton, his future wife, was 2 years behind him, attending for the first time in 1910. Leslie attended Arbuthnott school from 1908 until 1916. Just up the road from Bloomfield is Hareden, the home of Robert Middleton, Leslie’ future father-in-law and model for Long Rob of the Mill. From Bloomfield, Leslie and his brother would walk the two miles to the local parish school of Arbuthnott. Mitchell took up the lease on Bloomfield, a croft with acres of red-clay soil in the ancient community of Arbuthnott-the basis for Kinraddie in Sunset Song. The author’s father, also named James Mitchell, farmed the holding of Hillhead of Seggat until 1907, and it is this place that lends its name to the town where Cloud Howe, the 2nd book of a Scots Quair, is set.Īfter a brief year in Aberdeen city, Mr. ![]() On February 13th 1901 in Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Lilias Grant Gibbon gave birth to her third son, James Leslie Mitchell- the crofter’s son who would gain literary fame as Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ![]() William Malcolm, trustee of the Mitchell Literary Estate.īiographical Introduction by Emma Rose Miller ![]() A biographical timeline of the major events in Mitchell’s life and literary career - compiled by Dr. ![]()
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