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* ''[[In the Land of Cotton]]'' (1923) | * ''[[In the Land of Cotton]]'' (1923) | ||
* ''[[On the Trail of Negro Folksongs]]'' (1925) [http://www.archive.org/details/onthetrailofnegr027463mbp available at archive.org] | * ''[[On the Trail of Negro Folksongs]]'' (1925) [http://www.archive.org/details/onthetrailofnegr027463mbp available at archive.org] | ||
* ''[[The Wind (novel)|The Wind]]'' (1925) | * ''[[The Wind (novel)|The Wind]]'' (1925) (well-regarded; filmed as "The Wind"; about a woman going mad in Texas) | ||
* ''[[The Unfair Sex]]'' (serialized, 1925-26) | * ''[[The Unfair Sex]]'' (serialized, 1925-26) | ||
* ''[[Impatient Griselda]]'' (1927) | * ''[[Impatient Griselda]]'' (1927) | ||
Revision as of 20:36, 17 December 2010
Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935) was an American writer, including of ghost stories, and a scholar of supernatural stories.
Wikipedia: "While receiving her PhD from Columbia, she wrote a dissertation, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917)". Sylvia Ann Grider writes in a critical introduction [1] the dissertation "was so widely acclaimed by her professors and colleagues that it was published and it has become a basic reference work."
Bibliography
- Fugitive Verses (1912), original verses
- The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917); available in its entirety at Google Book Search
- From a Southern Porch (1919), viewable in full at Google Book Search or viewable at the Portal to Texas History
- Humorous Ghost Stories (1921) edited
- In the Land of Cotton (1923)
- On the Trail of Negro Folksongs (1925) available at archive.org
- The Wind (1925) (well-regarded; filmed as "The Wind"; about a woman going mad in Texas)
- The Unfair Sex (serialized, 1925-26)
- Impatient Griselda (1927)
- Can't Get a Redbird (1929)
- Stretch-Berry Smile (1932)
- The Story of Cotton (1933) juvenile reader
- Selected Short Stories of Today (1935)
- A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains (1937, posthumous)
Notes
- ↑ Sylvia Ann Grider, Foreword to The Wind by Dorothy Scarborough, Barker Texas History Center series, University of Texas Press, 1979.
Further reading
Works by Dorothy Scarborough at Project Gutenberg:
- Template:Gutenberg; edited by Dorothy Scarborough, with critical introduction
- Wikipedia