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, in 1914.[1] At the age of seventeen, she served her apprenticeship in journalism at The Orcadian.[2] She studied archeology 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]
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, were created. 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)
References
- ^ a b c d e "The Glasgow Herald". news.google.com. 10 March 1943. p. 6 – via Google News Archive Search.
- ^ a b c Bicket, Linden, "'The air of an early muse': The Visionary Fictions of Ann Scott-Moncrieff", in Brown, Rhona, & Lyall, Scott (eds.), Scottish Literary Review, Autumn/Winter 2024, Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, pp. 1 - 24, ISSN 1756-5634
- ^ Miller, Alison (2017), That Bright Lifting Tide: Twelve Orkney Writers, The George Mackay Brown Fellowship, pp. 26 & 27, ISBN 9780956661647
- ^ Summers, Joseph H. (1961). "The Achievement of Edwin Muir". The Massachusetts Review. 2 (2): 240–260. JSTOR 25086647.
- ^ Ritchie, Maggie (27 October 2020). "Once upon a second time as Scotland's Enid Blyton returns to print after her books were lost in the Blitz". The Sunday Post. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
- ^ Hendry, Joy (ed.), 'On Tom Scott and Ann Scott-Moncrieff', Chapman 47-48, Spring 1987, ISSN 0308-2695
External links
- Works by Ann Scott-Moncrieff at Project Gutenberg Australia
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