Both of them studied Russian, Mirrlees earning a Diploma in Russian from the École des Langues Orientales of Paris, and went on to collaborate on translations from the Russian.

In 1948, Mirrlees moved to South Africa and remained there until 1963, when the first volume of her " extravagant biography " of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published ( the second volume is unpublished ).

Hope-in-the-Mist, a book-length study of Mirrlees and her work by Michael Swanwick, was published by Temporary Culture in 2009.

The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees will be published by Fyfield Books ( Carcanet Press ) in 2011 ( edited by Sandeep Parmar ).

Clute writes that " a more cautious claim " would be: " if Susanna Clarke finishes the story she has hardly begun in Strange ... she may well have then written the finest English novel of the fantastic about the myth of England and the myth of the fantastic and the marriage of the two ever published, bar none of the above, including Mirrlees.

Mirrlees set her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists ( 1919 ), in and around the literary circles of the 17th Century Précieuses, and particularly those salons frequented by Mlle de Scudéry.

Since 2000, Mirrlees ' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.

*" Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees " ( 2011 ), Edited by Sandeep Parmar

A mathematical description was given by James Mirrlees.

Mirrlees Blackstone Limited was formed on June 1, 1969 by the merger of Mirrlees National Limited ( formerly Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day ) and Blackstone & Company Limited.

He also led the The Mirrlees Review, a review of the UK tax system by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

* " Tax by Design: the Mirrlees Review ", J. Mirrlees, S. Adam, T. Besley, R. Blundell, S. Bond, R. Chote, M. Gammie, P. Johnson, G. Myles and J. Poterba, ISBN 978-0-19-955374-7, Oxford University Press: September 2011.

* James Mirrlees interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 21st July 2009 ( film )

* Brush Traction-offered a locomotive powered by either a Mirrlees or Ruston engine, and used separately-excited ( Sepex ) traction control, as previously tested on the Class 58.

* " Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency " and " Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules " ( 1971 ), by Peter A. Diamond and James Mirrlees.

This was replaced in the 1880s by the steam beam engine, itself replaced in 1924 by the powerful Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day Diesel.

Mirrlees was a friend of Virginia Woolf, who described her in a letter as " her own heroine – capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.

Hope Mirrlees ( 1887 – 1978 ) was a British translator, poet and novelist.

His supervisor was James Mirrlees, who later gained the Nobel prize for Economics.

Born in Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Mirrlees was educated at the University of Edinburgh ( MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1957 ) and Trinity College, Cambridge ( Mathematical Tripos and PhD ), where he was a very active student debater.

One contemporary, Quentin Skinner has suggested that Mirrlees was a member of the Cambridge Apostles along with fellow Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen during this period.

Between 1968 and 1976, Mirrlees was a visiting professor at MIT three times.

His PhD supervisor was Professor Sir James Mirrlees.

The engine was a higher-powered development of the Mirrlees engine previously fitted experimentally to British Rail Class 37 nos.

The engine is an 8 cylinder, 145 litre Mirrlees Blackstone 8MB275T diesel traction engine ( 275 mm cylinder diameter ); the Mirrlees engine was one of the most fuel efficient available at the time ( 189g of fuel per kWhr ), but relatively heavy ; low cylinder count for rated power was expected to result in lower maintenance costs.

Born in Chislehurst, Kent and raised in Scotland and South Africa, Mirrlees attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge to study Greek.

Mirrlees optimal income tax is a detailed theoretical model of the optimum progressive income tax along these lines.

The CUHK has a great achievement in physical science and mathematics and is the only tertiary education institution in Hong Kong with Nobel Prize Laureates serving as professors, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and Charles K. Kao ( Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 2009 ).

Sandeep Parmar is currently writing a biography of Mirrlees as well.

Mirrlees also discovered that the line of the Bonds of Peckham bears the family motto " The World is Not Enough ", which Fleming appropriated for Bond's own family.

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees ( born 5 July 1936 ) is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Mirrlees is also co-creator, with MIT Professor Peter A. Diamond of the Diamond-Mirrlees Efficiency Theorem, developed in 1971.

Mirrlees is emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mirrlees is a member of Scotland's Council of Economic Advisers.

The Mirrlees diesel engine remains the centrepiece of the village's Museum of Fenland Drainage, and is believed to be the only example of an air-blast injection engine remaining in working order.

The Mirrlees engine remains in working order, and is demonstrated to interested visitors on several days throughout the year.

Mirrlees had Spanish antecedents, generally born without earlobes and Fleming used this physical attribute for Blofeld.

* Hope Mirrlees on the Web

While at Cambridge, Mirrlees developed a close relationship with famous classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, Mirrlees ' tutor and later her friend and collaborator.

Mirrlees later used medieval Spanish culture as part of the background of her second novel, The Counterplot ( 1924 ).

" Her circle of celebrity friends also included T. S. Eliot ; Gertrude Stein, who mentions Mirrlees in " Everybody's Autobiography "; Bertrand Russell ; and Lady Ottoline Morrell.