Auntie Robbo
Auntie Robbo is a truly delightful book. Auntie Robbo (81, energetic, hedonistic, “totally transparent”) and her orphaned great grand-nephew, 11 year-old Hector, are living a delightful life in their home Nethermuir, twelve miles out of Edinburgh, which is suddenly imperiled by the arrival of Hector’s long-forgotten stepmother Merlissa Benck, who lands upon the happy household and rapidly decides Auntie Robbie is mad as a hatter and Hector would be much better off at public school. So Auntie Robbo and Hector do a runner, launching themselves on a rollicking adventure into the Scottish highlands, picking up three extra, largely homeless, children and a tinker’s wagon along the way. Much food is eaten, scrapes squea
Ann Scott-Moncrieff
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 Bulletinbefore 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
Ann Scott-Moncrieff died in She was survived by her husband and three children.…more
[close] Ann Scott-Moncrieff, née Shearer ( - ) was a Scottish journalist and author. She was born in Kirkwall in , a daughter of Major J.D.M. Shearer. She attended the University of Edinburgh, after which, in , 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
Ann Scott-Moncrieff: Born with an Oar in her Fists
The George Mackay Brown Memorial Lecture was presented to a live audience on Zoom on Thursday 10 December by writer and publisher Jean Findlay. The author of Chasing Lost Time (her acclaimed biography of poet, translator, army commander and spy Charles Scott-Moncrieff) she is also the founder and director of Scotland Street Press, and the granddaughter of the Orkney writer Ann Scott-Moncrieff.
The lecture included family photographs and illustrations from the first editions of Ann Scott-Moncrieff&#;s novels and short stories for children. It included too an interview with the writer&#;s close friend Hannah Rendall, and a conversation with her daughter (and mother of Jean Findlay), Lesley Findlay.
Click here to view the video of the George Mackay Brown Memorial Lecture
Ann was born Agnes Shearer in Kirkwall at the start of World War 1 in but did not live to see the end of World War 2 as she died in aged just Her early death might partly explain that she is little known as a writer today – but the range and quality of her writing in the years of young adulthood show an already committed and accomplished wr
‘A native of Orkney, she carried with herself always an island freshness…’ So wrote Colm Brogan. She was born Agnes Shearer on 11 th January, in Orkney, though she later changed her name to Ann. Her father, John Shearer, was a tailor in Kirkwall: her mother, Jeannie Moir Murison, was a daughter of the manse but died when Agnes was ten. She grew up in and around Kirkwall, attended Kirkwall Academy, and served her apprenticeship as a journalist on the Orcadian. At eighteen she left Orkney for London, where she worked as a journalist in Fleet Street, and where she met George Scott-Moncrieff. A glorious summer was spent camping and swimming round the north coast of Skye with friends. They became engaged, though she refused to marry till she was twenty. Something of her personal impact can be found in Death’s Bright Shadow, a novel her husband wrote years later.
She gave up a course in archeology at Edinburgh University; they were married in and went to live near Stobo, Peebleshire, in a cottage which was let in return for work on the farm. So that first year George made only £8 by his writing but his wife did better. During the summer she finished her first book for children,
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