Margaret Scutt
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Margaret Scutt

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MARGARET ALICE SCUTT Margaret Alice Scutt was born in 1905 in Weymouth, Dorset, where her father was Schoolmaster at St. John’s. After his father’s bankruptcy he lived in poverty whilst studying to become a teacher. Nonetheless his career was successful, its advances moving the family several times within Dorset to his final headship in Lytchett Matravers. Margaret’s mother Minnie also taught and was the local postmistress. The eldest of three siblings Margaret’s sister Lorna became a teacher, while Geoffrey moved into engineering firstly locally and then further afield. The family grew up when entertainment was largely local and community generated. The Scutt family performed extensively in amateur dramatics and variety shows and were well reported in Dorset newspapers. Corpse Path Cottage as well as being an intriguing crime novel catches the essence and humour of a post-war Dorset village before the advent of Television and the Internet changed social mores for ever. Margaret, too, became a teacher. During a career of over forty years she taught in many Dorset schools, mainly in the Poole area, retiring in 1966 as Deputy Head at Sylvan School, Poole. Throughout her life, Margaret wrote in many formats including for family members and for school and community events such as short stories, playlets and verse; two historical novels were published in 1947 and 1949, I Do But Follow and And Some There Be respectively. She continued to write and we, her five nephews and nieces, recently submitted one of her unpublished manuscripts, Corpse Path Cottage to Robert Hale, then an imprint of the Crowood Press. It was accepted and first published in hardback in 2018. Now under the banner of Joffe Books Corpse Path Cottage is published on Kindle and paperback. Margaret cared for her widowed mother from 1957 to 1963 whilst continuing to work full-time. After retirement in 1966, she remained active and devoted to family and local church. She died suddenly in 1988 in Poole. In a later era her many talents might have led her to a much higher profile life. She was a very much loved aunt to the children of her brother and sister and we five cousins feel strongly that her work merits preservation and dissemination for enjoyment and information by all.
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