Mary Scott

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Mary Edith Scott born Clarke (born September 23, 1888 in Waimate North in the Bay of Islands , † July 16, 1979 in Tokoroa ) was a New Zealand bestselling author .

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Scott's family were among the first whites to settle on the island as part of the New Zealand mission. She received her education in Napier and Auckland , where she studied English, French and history. She started working at Gisborne High School but returned to Auckland in 1910 on a scholarship. From 1911 she taught at Christchurch Technical College, but soon returned to Auckland to take up further studies and then teach English at Thames High School before she married the farmer Walter Scott in 1914 and moved to the bush. After thirteen years and two catastrophic bush fires , the family of six gave up their farm in Strathallan and moved to Ngutunui . To help her two younger children attend school in town, Mary Scott took a job as a librarian in Te Awamutu .

From the 1920s she wrote, e.g. Sometimes under the pseudonyms Marten Stuart and J. Fiat, numerous, mostly autobiographically inspired, cheerful articles, short stories, novels and crime stories, most of which were also published in German by Goldmann in the 1960s . They achieved a large number of copies. In 1930 it was the Annual Discovery of the New Zealand Artists' Annual. She wrote for the Dunedin Evening Star for nearly 50 years . However, her big breakthrough came in 1953 with Breakfast at six , a story about the newly married wife of a sheep farmer, to which several sequels gradually appeared. From 1953 to 1978 she wrote one book on average about every year.

In 1958 the Scott couple left the farm near Ngutunui to their son Stuart and moved to a sheep farm in Arapuni . Walter Scott died two years later, and Mary moved to Howick and later to live with one of her daughters in Tirau .

The National Zeitung Basel commented on her works as follows:

Mary Scott shows us with her cheerful narrative talent that humor is the best way to get over some annoyance; she spices everything up with a shot of successful situation comedy and thus achieves that she gives her readers unreserved joy.

Her autobiography Days that have been from 1966 and her work The unwritten book from 1957 speak a more serious language about the difficult living conditions in the bush. The image conveyed by their more popular stories of life on the hillbilly sheep farms glorifies the cohesion of the few inhabitants and the advantages of rural life, but is rather one-sided.

Works

Autobiography:

  • That were good times. Mary Scott tells about her life - Days that have been (1966, German 1968)

Novels:

Susan and Larry series:

  • Breakfast at six. Me and Paul and a thousand sheep - Breakfast at six (1953, German 1956)
  • Lunch as a minor matter - Dinner doesn't matter (1957, German 1958)
  • Tea and Toast - Tea and biscuits (1962, German 1962)
  • And some love in the evening - A change from mutton (1965, German 1966)
  • Turkey twelve - Turkey at twelve (1968, dt 1969th)
  • Beloved country life - Shepherd's pie (1972, German 1973)
  • Foreign guests - Strangers for tea (1975, dt 1980th)
  • Overnight, breakfast excluded - Board, but no breakfast (1978, German 1981)

Freddie Trilogy:

  • Happy holidays by the sea - Families are fun (1956, German 1971)
  • Cheer up, Freddie - No sad songs (1960, German 1975)
  • When are we getting married, Freddie? - Freddie (1965, German 1967)

Other:

  • Well finally, darling - Yours to oblige (1954, German 1978)
  • Something is happening in paradise - Pippa in paradise (1955, German 1957)
  • Uncle is the best - One of the Family (1958, German 1975)
  • To the White Elephant - The White Elephant (1959, German 1970)
  • Honeymoon - The long honeymoon (1963, German 1970)
  • It's so simple - It's perfectly easy (1963, German 1964)
  • Never mind darling - what does it matter? (1966, German 1967)
  • Yes, darling - Yes, darling (1967, German 1968)
  • Das Teehaus im Grünen - Strictly speaking (1969, German 1976)
  • Help, I'm famous! - Haven't we met before? (1970, German 1971)
  • Oh, this relationship! - If I don't, who will? (1971, German 1975)
  • Never fall in love with a vet - First things first (1973, German 1974)
  • Tender Wilderness - It Was Meant (1974, German 1975)
  • The year in the country - Away from it all (1977, German 1980)

Detective novels about Inspector Wright and Jim Middleton (written with Joyce West )

  • Death in the paddock - Fatal Lady (1960, German 1976)
  • Lots of lovely people - Such nice people (1962, German 1964)
  • The secret of the mangrove bay - The mangrove murder (1964, German 1974)
  • The riddle of the hibiscus brooch - No red herrings (1964, German 1977)
  • The dead man in the trunk - Who put it there? (1965, German 1975)

The German editions were all published for the first time by Wilhelm-Goldmann-Verlag, Munich, later partly in book club editions or licensed editions from other publishers.

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personal data
SURNAME Scott, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, Mary Edith (full name); Clark, Mary Edith (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand author
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Waimate North , Bay of Islands
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1979
Place of death Tokoroa