Ann Scott-Moncrieff

{{Short description|Scottish writer (1914–1943)}}

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| birth_name = Ann Shearer

| birth_date = 1914

| birth_place = Kirkwall, Scotland

| death_date = 1943

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| nationality = Scottish

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Ann Scott-Moncrieff ({{Nee|Shearer}}) (1914–1943) was a Scottish author. She was born in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, the daughter of Major J.D.M. Shearer, in 1914.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19430310&id=vDRAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TVkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4890,3650973|title=The Glasgow Herald|date=10 March 1943|page =6 |via= Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}} At the age of seventeen, she served her apprenticeship in journalism at The Orcadian.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}} She studied archeology at the University of Edinburgh and worked on Fleet Street, in London,Miller, Alison (2017), That Bright Lifting Tide: Twelve Orkney Writers, The George Mackay Brown Fellowship, pp. 26 & 27, {{isbn|9780956661647}} where she met the Scottish novelist and topographer George Scott-Moncrieff. The couple married in 1934.

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.

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. 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.{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25086647|title=The Achievement of Edwin Muir|author=Summers, Joseph H.|year=1961|journal=The Massachusetts Review|volume=2|issue=2|pages=240–260|jstor=25086647 }} Her three children's books have been re-issued by Scotland Street Press.{{Cite web |last=Ritchie |first=Maggie |title=Once upon a second time as Scotland's Enid Blyton returns to print after her books were lost in the Blitz |url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/once-upon-a-second-time-as-scotlands-enid-blyton-returns-to-print-after-her-books-were-lost-in-the-blitzfrom-the-book/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=The Sunday Post |date=27 October 2020 |language=en-US}} Four of her short stories, 'The Longest Day', 'Strong Girl', 'Threesome' and 'Nothatus', were republished in Chapman magazine in 1987.Hendry, Joy (ed.), 'On Tom Scott and Ann Scott-Moncrieff', Chapman 47-48, Spring 1987, {{issn|0308-2695}}