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edit data. 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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Daughter of John B. and Mary Ellison Scarborough. Dorothy Scarborough came from a prosperous Southern background—both grandfathers owned large plantations, and her father was a lawyer and judge. Scarborough received her B.A. (1896) and M.A. (1898) from Baylor University, where she taught from 1905 to 1914. She did advanced graduate work at ...
Oct 28, 2020 · Then again, as she prepared to write The Wind, Dorothy Scarborough reminded herself to “read Hardy’s Tess, to get the effect of a girl driven to desperation by forces outside that are too ...
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Tagged: Author, Critic. (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. While she edited two volumes of ghost stories (see Eschatology ...
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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337 (first edition, hardback) The Wind (1925), a supernatural novel by Dorothy Scarborough, depicts the loneliness of life in a small Texas town during the 1880s. She originally published it anonymously, anticipating a rough reception in Texas. It was later made into a film called The Wind (1928) starring Lillian Gish.
Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935) was born and raised in Texas, earning a BA and an MA from Baylor University in 1896 and 1899 and securing a teaching position there in the English department from 1905 to 1915. Her primary academic specialties were creative writing, poetry, and the study of folklore.
