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Ann Scott-Moncrieff

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Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland

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Children's, Poetry

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Ann Scott-Moncrieff, née Shearer (1914 - 1943) was a Scottish journalist and author. She was born in Kirkwall in 1914, a daughter of Major J.D.M. Shearer. She undertook her apprenticeship in journalism with The Orcadian aged seventeen. She then studied at the University of Edinburgh, after which, in 1934, she married George Scott-Moncrieff, a Scottish novelist and topographer.

She contributed to the making of 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 in book form. Later appeared a volume of short stories, The White Drake and Other Tales. Her last book, Auntie Robbo, was published in the United States in 1940.

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Average rating: 4.21 · 52 ratings · 9 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Auntie Robbo 4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1940 — 24 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
	An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets by Catherine Kerrigan (Editor), Marion Angus (Contributor), Helen B. Cruickshank (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1991 — 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
	Firkin & the Grey Gangsters by Ann Scott-Moncrieff, Rojan 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1936	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
	Aboard the Bulger by Ann Scott-Moncrieff, C.L. Davidson (Illustrator) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1935 — 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
	The White Drake and Other Tales by Ann Scott-Moncrieff, Rojan (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1936 — 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 White Drake and Other Tales & Auntie Robbo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	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
	Chapman 38: On Derick Thomson by Joy Hendry (Editor), Christopher Whyte (Contributor), Walter Hume (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984	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
	An Anthology of Orkney Verse by Ernest W. Marwick (Editor), Bragi the Scald (Contributor), Rognvald Kolson (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1949	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
	Chapman 47-48: Tom Scott / Ann Scott-Moncrieff by Joy Hendry (Editor), Christopher Whyte (Contributor), Raymond J. Ross (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987	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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“Ye canna mak a pudden oot o pig's meat,
Ye canna big a hoose wi twa-three stays,
Ye canna plant a tattie when the grund's weet,
Ye canna ploo the hillside wi yer taes,
And is it like, my love to be
Thoo'll kin to mak a wife o me?

The whitemae's filings arena done in wan nest,
The minnow's aten by the eel alive,
When cat and dog lie doon there's poor rest,
The wild bee maks a fight within the hive,
And is it like, my love, to be
I'll can mak a wife to thee?”
― Ann Scott-Moncrieff

tags: love, marriage, scots-language

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“Well, George Buchanan was a bit of a romancer, there's no denying; he gave Scotland the credit of being a nation long after we ceased to be one... who are we to mock George Buchanan?”
― Ann Scott-Moncrieff, Chapman 47-48: Tom Scott / Ann Scott-Moncrieff

tags: george-buchanan, nationhood, romancer, scotland

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“Willy - red and shining, his spectacles bemisted, voice glutinous, alcohol sweating from every pore - had sung what he called an old English madrigal in his harsh, thick Scots; at the end he had walloped down, like a porpoise stranded by the tide, on the sofa where Mary sat, and given her a succulent porpoiseful kiss on the nape of the neck. It had been a good turn and everybody had laughed.”
― Ann Scott-Moncrieff, Chapman 47-48: Tom Scott / Ann Scott-Moncrieff

tags: drink, madrigal, mary, porpoise, scottish-renaissance, willy-gibb

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