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    Evelyn Scott

    Novelist

    By Arian Finley

    Evelyn Scott was born Elsie Dunn in Clarksville, TN in This would by no means tie the often-overlooked author to the traditional beliefs and values of typical Southerners of her time. Well-learned through self-teachings and private tutors and with access to many resources, she was greatly inspired by philosophers and scholars such as Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Marx. As a youth, she held very controversial beliefs. She had interest in writing, and used her writings to advocate fair treatment for blacks, poor people, and women.

    At 16, she moved to New Orleans with her family, where she published her first story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune under pen name Hiram Hagen Beck. She studied Arts at Sophie Newcomb College. Eventually, in she stirred up even more controversy, by marrying the dean of the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine at Tulane University, Frederick Creighton Wellman. Dunn and Wellman changed their

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    Evelyn Scott (writer)

    American novelist and playwright

    Evelyn Scott (born Elsie Dunn, January 17, – August 3, ) was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, she "was a significant literary figure in the s and s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion".[1]

    Personal life

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    Dunn was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, and spent her younger years in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] She wrote about her 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 the School of Tropical Medicine at Tulane.[2] Both took on pseudonyms when they ran away to Brazil tillsammans in [2] He became Cyril Kay-Scott and she took Scott as her surname. The two had a son, Creighton, before divorcing in [4][2] She also had an romantisk händelse with Owen Merton, father of Thomas Merton.[3&#