[4][5] Despite her background, Scovell ceased to be a religious believer: "I lost religion fairly early on," she told interviewer Jem Poster.
"[4] After a period spent working as a secretary and journalist,[6] Scovell married in 1937 the ecologist Charles Sutherland Elton, who had established the Bureau of Animal Population in Oxford.
Geoffrey Grigson, an admirer of Scovell's work, included eight of her poems in his 1949 collection Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After.
Philip Larkin included two, "The Swan's Feet" and "After Midsummer", in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1973).
Her poem "Deaths of Flowers" is included, with reflective comment, in Janet Morley's collection The Heart's Time (SPCK 2011).