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Dorothy Scarborough

Born

in Mount Carmel, Texas, The United States

January 27, 1878

Died

November 07, 1935

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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. The family soon left Sweetwater in 1887, so that the Scarborough children could get a good education at Baylor College.

Even though Scarborough's writings are identified with Texas, she studied at University of Chicago and Oxford University and beginning in 1916 taught literature at Columbia University.

While receiving her PhD from Columbia, she wrote a dissertation, "The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917)". Sylvia Ann Grider w ...more

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Average rating: 3.54 · 1,001 ratings · 114 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors

	Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough (Editor), Arthur Machen, Leonid Andreyev 3.46 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 1921 — 117 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wind (Barker Texas History Center Series) 3.85 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1925 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humorous Ghost Stories 3.37 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1921 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1917 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1937 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humorous Ghost Stories I (Annotated): Haunted Tales by Dorothy Scarborough (Introduction), D. Wallace, Burges Johnson it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs by Dorothy Scarborough, Ola Lee Gulledge (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1925 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough by Dorothy Scarborough 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O vento by Dorothy Scarborough, Celia Recarey Rendo (Translator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Funny Bones: an Anthology of Humorous Ghost Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Samuel Butler suggests that machines will be the real rulers in the coming ages, that man will be preserved only to feed and care for the machines”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

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“I can’t imagine how you did it,’ she cried.
‘I didn’t have no time to imagine. It’s what folks imagines that gen’rally ruins ‘em. It’s like maggots in the brain. My hands and feet had to keep movin’ so fast that my head didn’t have no chance to contradict ‘em.”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Wind

tags: resolve, stamina

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“the world loves a ghost, yet we like to take our ghosts vicariously, preferably in fiction. We'd rather see than be one.”
― Dorothy Scarborough, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

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