NMLP P-020722 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution

Marilynne Robinson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 1989

Both the US Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition and the UK Faber and Faber edition appeared in 1989. Precedence between the two could not be established from reliable sources, so neither should be asserted as the definitive true first; the FSG edition is the US first. A National Book Award finalist in nonfiction.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-020722 for "Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution" by Marilynne Robinson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-020722, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).