Anne Scott-James

Anne Scott-James Anne Eleanor Scott-James, Lady Lancaster (5 April 1913 – 13 May 2009) was a British journalist, columnist, editor, and author of gardening books and one novel. From 1964 to 1978 she was a panellist on the BBC radio Panel show panel game, My Word!. Quotes Wherever she went, Vita collected seeds and roots and Cutting (plant) cuttings, and always travelled with a Toiletry bag spongebag and a few potatoes into which she would put cuttings to keep them moist and fresh. Sissinghurst: The Making of a Garden 2nd Joseph 1974 9780718112783 https://books.google.co.ug/booksid=4TBOAQAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s&q=spongebag 104 (159 pages) The Great Parterre at Blenheim Palace Blenheim, planted by Henry Wise (gardener) Henry Wise, was abolished by Lancelot Brown, a priceless piece of history lost. The pleasure garden: an illustrated history of British gardening Penguin Books 1979 9780140050516 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=PEVVMHdx9iAC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=lancelot (128 pages; illustrated by Osbert Lancaster; 1977 1st edition) Florists' flowers, especially Primula auricula auriculas and tulips, were already popular in the 17th century seventeenth century, and a book on the subject, The Florist's Vade Mecum, by the Rev. Samuel Gilbert, son-in-law of the great gardener and gardening writer, John Rea (horticulturalist) John Rea, was published on 1683. The Cottage Garden Allen Lane 1981 9780713912630 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cottage_Garden.html?id=97ZFAAAAYAAJ&q=mecum 81 (159 pages) Quotes about Anne Scott-James Her second marriage was to the war correspondent and broadcaster Macdonald Hastings, with whom she had a son and a daughter. He liked sport and shooting, while she preferred the arts and literature. Hastings was very rightwing, she liberal in the tradition of Rolfe Arnold Scott-James her father. They had a tremendous row over Suez Crisis Suez, which she considered an act of barbarism, while he saw Anthony Eden as a hero. His remark that "I've got the three things I wanted most, a Churchill gun, a Hardy (fishing) Hardy rod and a beautiful wife" did not go down at all well. She strongly resented "being counted as a chattel with a gun and a rod". When divorce inevitably came, she said they had never shared a close relationship. Richard Boston, Obituary. Anne Scott-James. Exuberant Fleet Street pioneer who paved the way for a generation 14 May 2009 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/may/15/anne-scott-james-obituary-journalist External links Category:1913 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Editors from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:People from London Category:Radio personalities Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1910s Category:Women journalists from England