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George Scott-Moncrieff

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

April 09, 1910

Died

March 11, 1974

Website

http://calumimaclean.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/sco...

Genre

Fiction, Scottish Affairs, Drama

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George Scott-Moncrieff was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, editor, and author of several well-known books on Scotland. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Aldenham School in Hertfordshire, England. He coined the term 'Balmorality' to describe the cultural manifestations of Scotland's accommodation with the British Empire.

His first novel Café Bar was published in 1932. He married his first wife Ann Shearer in 1936, having met her in London where they both worked as journalists. Under her influence he converted from Episcopalianism to Catholicism. He lived with his first wife in Breakacky near Kingussie, then Dalwhinnie, and finally Edinburgh. After her death at the age of 29, he moved to the Isle of Eigg in 1945 and l ...more

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Average rating: 3.55 · 29 ratings · 6 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Edinburgh 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1947 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lowlands of Scotland really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1939 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scottish Islands 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1952 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burke Street by George Scott-Moncrieff, Russell Kirk (Introduction) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1956 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mirror and the Cross: Scotland and the Catholic Faith liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Death's Bright Shadow 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1948	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Traditions of Scotland 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Places in Perthshire: Craigower, Linn of Tummel, Pass of Killiecrankie, The Hermitage, Dunkeld 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kintail, Balmacara, and the Falls of Glomach 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Today finds Scotland in an extraordinary muddle. First she was free in body, romantic, cultured, and uncivilised, till her government was taken over by a usurious Kirk, weilding power through superstition. The boor for a century, she was repopularised by Scott, adopted as a plaything by a foreign queen, suffered worse than any nation in the industrial upheaval, and finally left an abortive carcase rotting somewhere to the North of England.”
― George Scott-Moncrieff, Scotland in Quest of Her Youth

tags: scotland, scottish-culture

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“A theatrical tribute to John Knox is one way of measuring his failure. John Kox was a strong advocate of the death penalty for actors, and consistent supporters of his doctrine should properly have strung up Tom Fleming, his impersonator, along with the rest of the cast of Robert Kemp's Master John Knox presented at the Gateway Theatre during October. The play and the man cannot both be justified, and an unrealistic element enters into a theatrical interpretation that is devised to do fulsome homage to a historical character without conceding that he was one of the Theatre's most savage enemies. This element of calculated inaccuracy was sustained in a piece that Christopher Small, writing in the Glasgow Herald, rightly observed presented us with the Knox of tradition, or sentiment, rather than the Knox of history. But if we are prepared to swallow the legend, Mr. Kemp succeeded in giving it theatrical life.”
― George Scott-Moncrieff, Saltire Review 23, Winter 1961

tags: gateway-theatre, john-knox, robert-kemp, tom-fleming

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