Anne Scott-James, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Anne Scott-James

British journalist

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1913

Date of Death: 13-May-2009

Profession: writer, editor, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Anne Scott-James

  • Anne Eleanor Scott-James, Lady Lancaster (5 April 1913 – 13 May 2009) was an English journalist and author.
  • She was one of Britain's first women career journalists, editors and columnists, and latterly author of a series of gardening books. She was born in Bayswater, London in 1913.
  • Her father was the Liberal journalist and literary critic R.
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  • Scott-James, later editor of the London Mercury; her mother was also a journalist.
  • She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Somerville College, Oxford.
  • She gained a First in Honour Moderations but did not complete her degree.
  • She joined the staff of Vogue in 1934, initially as a secretary, but quickly advanced to become a columnist, and latterly, Beauty Editor.
  • In 1939 she married the editor and publisher Derek Verschoyle, but they soon divorced.
  • On the outbreak of war she joined the staff of Picture Post and was its Women's Editor from 1941 to 1945.
  • While at Picture Post, she met and married the journalist Macdonald Hastings.
  • They had two children, one of whom is Max Hastings, the journalist and former editor of The Daily Telegraph.
  • Her daughter Clare Hastings, is the author of 'The House in Little Chelsea' and a gardening book ' Gardening Notes from a Late Bloomer'. From 1945 to 1951, Scott-James was the editor of the British Harper's Bazaar, during which time she commissioned work from such figures as Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman and Elizabeth David.
  • Her novel In the Mink was published in 1952.
  • She became Woman's Editor for the Sunday Express (1953–57) and columnist for the Daily Mail (1960–68).
  • In 1964 she succeeded Nancy Spain as a panellist on the popular BBC radio panel game, My Word!.
  • She herself was succeeded by Antonia Fraser in 1978.
  • Her marriage to Macdonald Hastings ended in the early sixties, and she soon met the writer and illustrator Osbert Lancaster.
  • They were married from 1967 until his death in 1986. In the late 1960s she left the world of journalism and embarked on a new stage in her career, gardening writing.
  • Her books, The Pleasure Garden (jointly written with Lancaster), Down to Earth, and Sissinghurst: The Making of a Garden, are regarded as classics of their genre.Scott-James died aged 96, and is survived by her son and daughter.

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