Olivia Howard Dunbar
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Dunbar was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1873. She graduated from Smith College in 1894,[3] after which she worked in newspaper journalism. She worked for the New York World during which time she penned an exposé on Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science.[4] As a short story 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.[5] Dunbar was active in the women's suffrage movement, and her work has been noted to contain feminist themes.[2] She married the poet Ridgely Torrence in 1914. Dunbar died in 1953. Her work has been anthologized by Dorothy Scarborough and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.[2][6]
Selected works
Short fiction
- The Shell of Sense (1908)
- The Long Chamber (1914)
Novels
- A House in Chicago (1947)
