Olivia Howard Dunbar

Olivia Howard Dunbar (1873–1953) was an American short story writer, journalist and biographer, best known today for her ghost fiction.[1]

Life

Dunbar was born in West Bridgeport, Massachusetts in 1873. She graduated from Smith College, after which she worked in newspaper journalism. As a short shory writer and critic, she was published in many of the popular periodicals of her time, including Harper's and The Dial. Dunbar wrote several ghost stories, as well as a 1905 essay, "The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction", defending the subgenre.[2] Dunbar was active in the women's suffrage movement, and her work has been noted to contain feminist themes.[1] She married the poet Ridgely Torrence in 1914. Dunbar died in 1953. Her work has been anthologized by Dorothy Scarborough and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.[1][3]

Selected works

Short fiction

Novels

References

  1. 1 2 3 Salmonson, Jessica Amanda (1989). What Did Miss Darrington See? : An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 9781558610057.
  2. ↑ Olivia Howard Dunbar, "The Decay of the Ghost in Fiction". In Jason Colavito, ed.,A Hideous Bit of Morbidity: An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. (pp. 330-336). ISBN 978-0786469093 (Reprinted from The Dial, June 1, 1905, p. 377-380.)
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Scare tactics : supernatural fiction by American women.New York : Fordham University Press, 2008. ISBN 0823229858 (p. 106).

Further reading

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