[5] In 1973, Kitson founded “Red Lion Setters,” a typesetting collective that operated out of Gray’s Inn Road.
In 1982, Red Lion Setters led the successful campaign to free Kitsons son from detainment in South Africa.
She was secretary of Zimbabwe Women Writers late in her life, and wrote a creative writing textbook during that time.
[8] Norma Cranko married a World War II veteran, mechanical engineer Dave Kitson.
[4] In 2011 she was honoured by the Republic of Sierra Leone by a postage stamp issued for her in their series Legendary Heroes of Africa.