42 - This Unsetting Star: Linden Bicket

Ann Scott-Moncrieff was born Agnes Shearer on 11th January 1914 in Orkney, though she later changed her name to Ann.

At eighteen she left Orkney for London, where she worked as a journalist in Fleet Street, and where she met George Scott-Moncrieff.  She wrote children’s books and adapted literary classics for radio in her short life, she died aged 29.   She was admired by George Mackay Brown and has a poem dedicated to her by Edwin Muir. 

Linden Bicket is writing a literary biography of Ann Scott-Moncrieff and here explores her writing for children and her accomplished short stories for adults. Linden Bicket is a Lecturer in Literature and Religion in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and the author of George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).