Ann Scott-Moncrieff

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]

Ann Scott-Moncrieff
Ann Scott-Moncrief, Scottish author
Born	Ann Shearer 1914 Kirkwall, Scotland
Died	1943
Nationality	Scottish
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, 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)