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Anne Eleanor Scott-James (Lady Lancaster), (born
April 5,
1913), is an
English journalist and
author. She has been one of
Britain's first women career journalists,
editors and columnists, and latterly author of a series of gardening books.
Educated at
Oxford and coming from a long line of critics and writers, Anne Scott-James joined the staff of
Vogue in
1934, initially as a secretary, but soon as a
columnist. In 1939 she married the editor and
publisher Derek Verschoyle, but the two were soon divorced. On the outbreak of
war she joined the staff of
Picture Post and was its Women's Editor from 1941 to 1945. At
Picture Post she met and married the journalist
Macdonald Hastings. They had two children, one of whom is the journalist and former
editor of the
Daily Telegraph Max Hastings.
From 1945 to 1951 Scott-James was the editor of the British edition of
Harper's Bazaar, during which time she commissioned work from such figures as
Cecil Beaton,
John Betjeman and
Elizabeth David. She was later 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 failed and in the early sixties she met the writer and illustrator
Sir Osbert Lancaster. They were married in 1967.
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.
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