Florida Scott-Maxwell
Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell was a playwright, author and psychologist.Biography
Florida Pier was born in Orange Park, Florida, and educated at home until the age of ten. She grew up in Pittsburgh, then moved to New York City at age 15 to become an actress. In 1910 she married John Maxwell Scott-Maxwell and moved to her husband's native Scotland, and lived in Baillieston House 6 miles east of Glasgow where she worked for women's suffrage and as a playwright..
They had four children: sons Stephen, Peter and Denis, and a daughter Hilary. The couple divorced in 1929 and she moved to London. In 1933 she studied Jungian psychology under Carl Jung and practised as an analytical psychologist in both England and Scotland. Her most famous book is The Measure of My Days.
Scott-Maxwell died in Exeter, England on 6 March 1979.Selected works
- The Power of Ancestors
- Musty, Dusty Mr. Cullender
- Mrs Nolly's Real Self
- The Flash-Point. A play in three acts. 1914
- The Kinsmen Knew How to Die.
- Pray for the Princess
- Many Women 1932. Produced at the Arts Theatre, London.
- Towards relationship 1939
- I Said to Myself 1946. Produced at the Mercury Theatre, London
- Women and Sometimes Men 1957
- The Measure of My Days 1968
