Ann Scott-Moncrieff
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Ann Scott-Moncrieff () (1914–1943) was an author who was the daughter of Major J. D. M. Shearer. She was born in Kirkwall, Scotland, in 1914. She attended the
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and married George Scott-Moncrieff in 1934, a Scottish novelist and
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. She contributed to
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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. Scott-Moncrieff died in 1943; she was memorialized in a poem by
Edwin Muir Edwin Muir CBE (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator. Born on a farm in Deerness, a parish of Orkney, Scotland, he is remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry written in plain language and wit ...
. Her three children's books have been re-issued by Scotland Street Press.


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'')


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Works by Ann Scott-Moncrieff
at Project Gutenberg Australia Scottish women novelists People from Orkney 1914 births 1943 deaths People from Kirkwall Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 20th-century Scottish novelists 20th-century Scottish women writers Scottish children's writers {{Scotland-writer-stub