Ann Scott-Moncrieff
Scottish writer (1914–1943)
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Ann Scott-Moncrieff (née Shearer) (1914–1943) was a Scottish author. She was born in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, the daughter of Major J. D. M. Shearer.[1] At the age of seventeen, she served her apprenticeship in journalism at The Orcadian.[2] She studied archaeology at the University of Edinburgh[1] and worked on Fleet Street, in London,[3] where she met the Scottish novelist and topographer George Scott-Moncrieff. The couple married in 1934.[1]
Ann Scott-Moncrieff | |
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| Born | Ann Shearer 1914 |
| Died | 1943 (aged 28–29) |
| Occupation | Author |
The Scott-Moncrieffs returned to Scotland, moving between Peebleshire, Midlothian, Badenoch and Haddington as they contributed to small magazines, literary journals, broadsheets and radio programming.[2]
Ann wrote original pieces and adapted literary classics, including Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies and Susan Ferrier's Marriage, for broadcast by the BBC on Scottish Children's Hour and The Regional Programme.[2] Her first published literary work was a children's story, Aboard the Bulger, which appeared as a serial in The Bulletin before its publication as a book. A volume of short stories, The White Drake and Other Tales, was compiled. Her last book, Auntie Robbo, was published in the United States in 1940.[1]
Scott-Moncrieff died in 1943;[1] she was memorialized in a poem by Edwin Muir.[4] Her three children's books have been re-issued by Scotland Street Press.[5] Four of her short stories, "The Longest Day", "Strong Girl", "Threesome" and "Nothatus", were republished in Chapman magazine in 1987.[6]
Bibliography
- Aboard the Bulger
- The White Drake and Other Tales (1936)
- Auntie Robbo (1941)
New editions
- Auntie Robbo (2019)
- Aboard the Bulger (2020)
- Firkin and the Grey Gangsters (2021) (original title – The White Drake and Other Tales)
