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Burke Street
As Russell Kirk observes in his introduction to "Burke Street, ""This slim book about eighteenth-century walls and twentieth-century mentalities is a vindication of our neglected patrimony: our inheritance of a moral tradition and an architectural tradition. Its author deserves to be remembered." The defense of tradition runs through all of George Scott-Moncrieff s writings. In his plays, novels, poems, his short history of the Catholic faith in Scotland, and many other works he exhorts us to preserve the things of our ancestors, and the sentiments they have bequeathed. For without them, he believes, our ideas and experiences would have no linkage to the history of mankind, and would be mean...
Edinburgh
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The White Drake and Other Tales
Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914-1943), author, was a daughter of Major J. D. M. Shearer. She was born in Kirkwall, Scotland, in 1914. At one time she attended Edinburgh University, after which, in 1934, she married George Scott-Moncrieff, a Scottish novelist and topographer. She contributed to the making of B.B.C. 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.
The Scottish Islands
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Chasing Lost Time
C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s celebrated translation of Proust’s A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in 1922 and was a work which would exhaust and consume the translator, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. Joseph Conrad told him, ‘I was more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust’s creation’: some literary figures even felt it was an improvement on the original. From the outside an enigma, Scott Moncrieff left a trail of writings that describe a man expert at living a paradoxical life: fervent Catholic convert and homosexual, gregarious party-goer and deeply lonely, interwar spy in Mussolini’s Italy and public man of letters – a ma...
Auntie Robbo
11 year old Hector and his great-grand-aunt Robbo live in harmony until his stepmother (whom he has never met) arrives with plans which will disrupt their lives. After fleeing their home to the highlands, they meet with three children and have many adventures while trying to evade his stepmother.
Aboard the Bulger
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Auntie Robbo
Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914-1943), author, was a daughter of Major J. D. M. Shearer. She was born in Kirkwall, Scotland, in 1914. At one time she attended Edinburgh University, after which, in 1934, she married George Scott-Moncrieff, a Scottish novelist and topographer. She contributed to the making of B.B.C. 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.
