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Dorothy Scarborough, from a 1918 publication. Emily Dorothy Scarborough (January 27, 1878 – November 7, 1935) was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest.
Emily Dorothy Scarborough was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest. Scarborough was born in Mount Carmel, Texas. At the age of four she moved to Sweetwater, Texas for her mother's health, as her mother needed the drier climate.
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Dorothy Scarborough has 66 books on Goodreads with 3275 ratings. Dorothy Scarborough’s most popular book is Famous Modern Ghost Stories.
4 days ago · Novelist, folklorist, a catcher of songs, Dorothy Scarborough took inspiration from America's regional cultures and, in doing so, preserved the creative expressions of ordinary people from times past.
Apr 19, 2018 · Dorothy Scarborough was preeminently a novelist whose works dealt primarily with the plight and role of women in Texas and elsewhere, although she also had an interest in ghosts, sharecroppers, cowboys, and other local characters and settings.
Jun 2, 2022 · Dorothy Scarborough was born in Texas in 1878. She attended Baylor College then the University of Chicago before going onto Oxford. She taught literature at Columbia, beginning in 1916. Her dissertation became her first book on the supernatural: The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917).
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(1878-1935) Working name of Emily Dorothy Scarborough, US author best known for her novels about the contemporary American southwest, most notably The Wind ( 1925 ), a hauntingly surreal portrait of a woman maddened by listening to the Texas winds.
