Dorothy Scarborough

Dorothy Scarborough ("Emily Dorothy Scarborough", Jan. 27, 1878 - Nov. 7, 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 the dissertation "was so widely acclaimed by her professors and colleagues that it was published and it has become a basic reference work."

Scarborough received her B.A. from Baylor in 1896 and her M.A. in 1899.

Both Scarborough's brother (George Moore Scarborough) and sister (Martha Douglass, Mrs. George McDaniel) were also published writers.

She is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas.

Bibliography

• 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
• 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)
• The Story of Cotton (1933) juvenile reader

edited works

• Humorous Ghost Stories (1921)
• Famous Modern Ghost Stories (1921)
• Selected Short Stories of Today (1935)

poetry

• Fugitive Verses (1912), original verses

folklore collections

• On the Trail of Negro Folksongs (1925) available at archive.org
• A Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains (1937, posthumous)

novels

• In the Land of Cotton (1923)
• Can't Get a Redbird (1929)
• Stretch-Berry Smile (1932)

Further reading

Works by Dorothy Scarborough at Project Gutenberg:

• Template:Gutenberg; edited by Dorothy Scarborough, with critical introduction
• Wikipedia
• Sylvia Grider, Scarborough, Emily Dorothy, The Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association), accessed Dec. 15, 2010.