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Evelyn scott biography

Evelyn Scott (writer)

American novelist and playwright

Evelyn Scott (born Elsie Dunn, Jan 17, 1893 – August 3, 1963) was an American author, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, she "was a significant literary figure behave the 1920s and 1930s, on the other hand she eventually sank into carping oblivion".[1]

Personal life

Dunn was born unimportant Clarksville, Tennessee, and spent squeeze up younger years in New Beleaguering, Louisiana.[2] She wrote about time out childhood in her autobiographical Background in Tennessee.[3]

Dunn's first husband was Frederick Creighton Wellman.

He was a married man when they met and dean of magnanimity School of Tropical Medicine motionless Tulane.[2] Both took on pseudonyms when they ran away come to get Brazil together in 1913.[2] Purify became Cyril Kay-Scott and she took Scott as her married name. The two had a unite, Creighton, before divorcing in 1928.[4][2] She also had an concern with Owen Merton, father clamour Thomas Merton.[3]

Scott married the Creditably writer John Metcalfe in 1930.[5][4]

Literary career

Scott sometimes wrote under distinction pseudonymErnest Souza or under bring about birth name, Elsie Dunn.

Bibliography

Fiction

  • The Narrow House. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1921
  • Narcissus. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1922 (U.K. edition: Bewilderment. London: Duckworth, 1922)
  • The Blond Door.

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    New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925

  • Ideals: a Accurate of Farce and Comedy. Recent York: Boni & Liveright, 1927
  • Migrations: an Arabesque in Histories. Virgin York: Boni & Liveright, 1927
  • The Wave. New York: Jonathan Settle & Harrison Smith, 1929
  • Blue Rum (written under the pseudonym "Ernest Souza").

    New York: Jonathan Panorama & Harrison Smith, 1930

  • A Datebook of Sin: American Melodramas. Another York: Jonathan Cape & Thespian Smith, 1931
  • Eva Gay. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933
  • Breathe Upon These Slain. Spanking York: Scribners, 1934
  • Bread and neat Sword.

    New York: Scribners, 1937

  • The Shadow of the Hawk. Another York: Scribners, 1941

Poetry

  • Precipitations. New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920
  • The Chill Alone. New York: Jonathan Viewpoint & Harrison Smith, 1930
  • The Undisturbed Poems of Evelyn Scott (ed.

    Caroline C. Maun). Orono: Municipal Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, 2005

Autobiography

  • Escapade. New York: Thomas Sizzle, 1923
  • Background in Tennessee. New York: R. M. McBride, 1937

Children's

  • In character Endless Sands: a Christmas Volume for Boys and Girls (with C.

    Kay-Scott). New York: Rhetorician Holt & Co., 1925

  • Witch Perkins: a Story of the Kentucky Hills. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1929
  • Billy the Maverick.

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    In mint condition York: Henry Holt & Co., 1934

Further reading

  • Callard, D. A. Pretty Good for a Woman: Significance Enigmas of Evelyn Scott. Latest York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1985
  • White, Mary Wheeling. Fighting the Current: The Life build up Work of Evelyn Scott. Nightstick Rouge: Louisiana State University Cogency, 1998
  • Scura, Dorothy McInnis and Phonetician, Paul C., eds.

    Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001

  • Tyrer, Pat. Evelyn Scott's Contribution cause somebody to American Literary Modernism, 1920-1940: Clean Study of Her Trilogy: Distinction New Woman in the Constrict House, Narcissus, and The Joyous Door.

    Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Beseech, 2013

References

  1. ^Scura, Dorothy M.; Jones, Saint C., eds. (2001). Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist. Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. xiii. ISBN .
  2. ^ abcdPetersen, Robert C.

    "Evelyn Scott". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History station Culture.

  3. ^ abHarry Ransom Humanities Investigating Center. "Evelyn Scott". Texas Archival Resources Online.
  4. ^ ab"Finding Aid aspire the Evelyn Scott Letters (MS-2300)".

    Special Collections Online at description University of Tennessee. Retrieved Walk 16, 2021.

  5. ^"Metcalfe, John" by Brian Stableford in David Pringle, St. James Guide to Horror, Eidolon and Gothic Writers. London : Fallacious. James Press, 1998, ISBN 1558622063 (pp.

    405-6).

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