Ann Scott (author)


Ann Scott 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.
She worked with Ruth First with whom she co-authored a 1980 book on Olive Schreiner, entitled Olive Schreiner.
She worked for Free Association Books until she moved to the USA in 1989.

Activism

In 1977, Scott became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press. WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.