Ann Scott (author)

Ann Scott (born 1950) is a British feminist author born in London to an American father and British mother.

Education and career

She studied at Girton College, Cambridge and was News Editor of Spare Rib before working on Schreiner. She then taught psychoanalysis at London University and published in Feminist Review and History Workshop Journal.[1] She worked with Ruth First with whom she co-authored a 1980 book on Olive Schreiner, entitled Olive Schreiner (published by Deutsch, ISBN 9780233971520).

She worked for Free Association Books until she moved to the USA in 1989.

References

1. Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London -2013 133 "It promoted a view of feminism as a positive and constructive movement. Ann Scott, in an editorial called “Why is your magazine so depressing?” discussed the remit of Spare Rib: The magazine gives women who are involved in Women's ..."