Margaret Scott, literary icon of Tasmania, human rights activist, ABC television panellist with gently understated but devastating humour, died at the age of 71 on Monday, August 29.
Born in Bristol, England in 1934, she emigrated to Tasmania in 1959 and subsequently took up the position of head of the University of Tasmania’s English Department.
She retired in 1978 to pursue her writing of novels, magazine articles and, most notably, poetry.
Margaret Scott was particularly asscociated with the Port Arthur community and the arts community.
We will miss her.
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Dave Groves
September 2, 2005 at 05:24
Margaret reminds me in appearance and spirit of my dear Nan.
A rare jewel no doubt.
Nanna, my dear wife’s mother, is the only person I miss in my life.
She has be gone for a more than a year now, unfairly taken by cancer.
She was the salt of the earth.
She never judged me; she took me for who I was. She listened intently and was always interested in anything and everything I did and said.
Nan was supportive and never had a bad word to say about anyone.
She would get excited over a blade of grass.
Nan would say excitedly to our son, “Sam, for god sake Harry and the frogs, will you look at that kookaburra sitting on the fence.â€
I still cack myself when I think of her bouncing around saying that.
The kids were known affectionately as the “frogletsâ€, and our daughter was lovingly christened “The child of winterâ€.
Sam was always “Mr Manâ€.
Nan was something out of the box.
She wished us all “days full of diamondsâ€, she loved that saying.
We would always try to outdo each other with how many diamonds we could wish for each other.
Nan lived near the sea in her later years and enjoyed the sparkle as the sun played on the water. I’d reckon she would just count all those diamonds.
She was loved by many and is missed by all.
I don’t know any of the Scotts and I don’t want to intrude, but I wish Margaret’s family all good things and all good memories.
Dave