Ann Scott-Moncrieff

Ann Scott-Moncrieff
Ann Scott-Moncrief, Scottish author
Born
Ann Shearer

1914
Kirkwall, Scotland
Died1943
Occupationauthor

Ann Scott-Moncrieff (née Shearer) (1914–1943) was an author who was the daughter of Major J. D. M. Shearer. She was born in Kirkwall, Scotland, in 1914.[1] She attended the University of Edinburgh[1] and married George Scott-Moncrieff in 1934, a Scottish novelist and topographer.[1]

She contributed to BBC programmes, and 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.[2] Her three children's books have been re-issued by Scotland Street Press.[3]

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

  1. ^ a b c d e "The Glasgow Herald". news.google.com. 10 March 1943. p. 6 – via Google News Archive Search.
  2. ^ Summers, Joseph H. (1961). "The Achievement of Edwin Muir". The Massachusetts Review. 2 (2): 240–260. JSTOR 25086647.
  3. ^ 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.
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