Dorothy Scarborough
Dorothy Scarborough ("Emily Dorothy Scarborough", "Miss Dottie", 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 [1] 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
- scholarship and criticism
- 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)
- The Wind (1925) (well-regarded; filmed as "The Wind"; about a woman going mad in Texas)
- Can't Get a Redbird (1929)
- Stretch-Berry Smile (1932)
- additional works
- From a Southern Porch (1919), viewable in full at Google Book Search or viewable at the Portal to Texas History
- The Unfair Sex (serialized, 1925-26)
- Impatient Griselda (1927)
- The Story of Cotton (1933) juvenile reader
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
- Sylvia Grider, Scarborough, Emily Dorothy, The Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association), accessed Dec. 15, 2010.