Alphabet Authors ~ S is for Scott

I found this idea on Simon's blogStuck in a Book. He picks an author for each letter of the alphabet, sharing which of their books he's read, which I ones he owns, how he came across them etc.

I might not do it exactly as he does but I will try to get to all the letters of the alphabet over time.

Mary Scott was my first "adult" author, the first author I discovered in my teens who had not written for children.

I have written about her before (see here: New Zealand novels) but I had to include her in this challenge. There are obviously other authors that begin with S that I also really like (Elif Şafak, Rafik Schami, Jan-Philipp Sendker, and more) but Mary Scott was my first real "favourite". My favourite was the Susan and Larry Series but all her other books are also fantastic.

Autobiography:

"Days That Have Been" - 1966

Freddie-Trilogy:

- "Families are Fun" - 1957

- "No Sad Songs" - 1960

- "Freddie" - 1965
Susan and Larry Series:
- "Breakfast at Six" - 1953

- "Dinner Doesn’t Matter" - 1957
- "Tea and Biscuits" - 1961
- "A Change from Mutton" - 1964
- "Turkey at Twelve" - 1968
- "Shepherd’s Pie" - 1972
- "Strangers for Tea" - 1975
- "Board, but no Breakfast" - 1978 

Others:

- "Away From It All" - 1977
- "First Things First" - 1973
- "Haven't We Met Before?" - 1970
- "If I Don't, Who Will?" - 1971
- "It’s Perfectly Easy" - 1963
- "It Was Meant" - 1974
- "The Long Honeymoon" - 1963
- "One of the Family" - 1958
- "Pippa in Paradise" - 1955
- "Strictly Speaking" - 1969  
- "What Does It Matter" - 1966
- "The White Elephant" - 1959
- "Yes, Darling" - 1967
- "Yours to oblige" - 1954
Crime Novels written with Joyce West:
- "Fatal Lady" (Inspector Wright #1) - 1960
- "Such Nice People" (Inspector Wright #2) - 1962
- "The Mangrove Murder" (Inspector Wright #3) - 1964
- "No Red Herrings" (Inspector Wright #4) - 1964
- "Who Put It There?" (Inspector Wright #5) - 1965 

Books I didn't get to read:
"The Unwritten Book" 1957

Five collections of "Barbara" stories - 1920-1930s

Facts about Mary Scott
Born    Mary Edith née Clarke

           23 September 1888 in Waimate North, New Zealand

Died    16 July 1979 (aged 90) Tokoroa, New Zealand
Married Walter Scott 1914
4 children

Pen names: Marten Stuart and J. Fiat

She was the first woman to write about backblocks farming and probably also the first woman to write romantic comedies about New Zealand rural life which made her widely known in her own country and abroad.

See also: Lydia Wevers. 'Scott, Mary Edith', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1998, updated September, 2003. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand

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This is part of an ongoing series where I will write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here.