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.

[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.

Mitton in the early 1930s