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	Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879-November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the Twentieth century.
		Dorothy Canfield brought the Montessori method of child rearing to the United States, presided over the country's first adult education program, and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book-of-the-Month club selection committee from 1925 to 1951.
		Canfield went on to study Romance languages at Columbia University, and in 1904 was one of the few women of her generation to receive a doctoral degree.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorothy_Canfield_Fisher (492 words)

	Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Canfield studied (The group of languages derived from Latin) Romance languages at (A university in New York City) Columbia University, and in 1904 was one of the few women of her generation to receive a (Click link for more info and facts about doctoral degree) doctoral degree.
		Her father was James Hulme Canfield, a college professor at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Kansas) University of Kansas and the (A university in Lincoln, Nebraska) University of Nebraska, and president of (A university in Columbus, Ohio) Ohio State University; her mother, Flavia Camp, was an artist and writer.
		However, Canfield is most closely associated with (A state in New England) Vermont, where she spent her adult life, and which served as the setting for many of her books.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/dorothy_canfield_fisher.htm (426 words)

	Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born in Lawrence, Kansas, February 17, 1879, the second child and only daughter of James Hulme Canfield, educator, college professor, Chancellor and president, respectively, at University of Kansas, University of Nebraska and Ohio State, and Flavia Camp Canfield, artist and writer.
		Dorothy Canfield was educated in the United States and France.
		Of Canfield Fisher's literary production, the Manchester (England) Guardian has written, "She is one of the very few American authors who, while profoundly influenced by her European experiences, and her appreciation of many things in Europe, retains a full-blooded Americanism of the best kind.
	bailey.uvm.edu:6336 /dynaweb/findingaids/fisherdc/@Generic__BookTextView/128;cs=default;ts=default (1070 words)

	Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Collection (1865-1958) contains personal correspondence, family papers and assorted memorabilia, book manuscripts and galley proofs, holographs of published articles and stories, critical studies and reviews of Fisher's work, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous printed material, and the material generated by her extensive civic and educational activities.
		Family correspondence (box 3) consists largely of letters from Dorothy Canfield Fisher to family members, the bulk of these being her round robin letters from France during World War I. These are arranged alphabetically by major and notable correspondent.
		Fisher's articles and stories (boxes 32-37) are arranged alphabetically by title, with untitled pieces at the end of the series (box 37) alphabetically by subject.
	bailey.uvm.edu:6336 /dynaweb/findingaids/fisherdc/@Generic__BookTextView/347;cs=default;ts=default (628 words)

	DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born in Lawrence, Kansas on February 17, 1879.
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher enjoyed the adventurous side of her mother and liked to listen to her father talk about American traditional values.
		Dorothy strongly agreed with her father about American traditional values, and I think that her father led her to her books and what she became.
	www.vuhs.org /project/fisher.htm (526 words)

	Cather Studies Volume 3
		MARK J. The friendship of Willa Cather and Dorothy Canfield Fisher began in their parish, as Cather called her home territory of Nebraska, and spanned nearly the entire lifetimes of both women as they struggled and triumphed in the world.
		Fisher said she had just heard of "The Profile" and that she would "suspend judgment" until hearing from Cather, whom she implored to reply immediately.
		Canfield's name had been given to a character who "could not endure being contradicted; she always seemed to regard it in the light of a defeat.
	www.unl.edu /cather_seminar/scholarship/cs/vol1/dorothy.htm (4404 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Understood Betsy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fisher is a wise, personable storyteller, steeped in the Montessori principles of learning for its own sake, the value of process, and the importance of "indirect support" in child rearing.
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher is simply one of the smartest psychologists, long before Freud came on the seen.
		Fisher not only crafts a wonderful story of how a little sheltered and fearful girl under the care of one aunt, grows into an independent thinker, and joyful person under the care of her other relatives when the former aunt is taken out of the picture.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0874519209 (1267 words)

	Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Canfield received a Ph.D. in Romance languages from Columbia University in 1904, a rare accomplishment for a woman of her generation.
		An author of fiction and nonfiction for both adults and children, Dorothy Canfield Fisher was popular especially for her novels concerned with the problems of home and children.
		U.S. cartoonist Ham Fisher is remembered for creating the comic strip “Joe Palooka.” The very popular strip, about a slaphappy boxer, first appeared in 1930 and later was the subject of films and a television series.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9104263?tocId=9104263&query=dorothy (537 words)

	The Bedquilt and Other Stories by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In essential respects, Dorothy Canfield Fisher's work (and life), as revealed in Mark Madigan's superb introduction and afterword, are not dated.
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the prolific author of more than forty books, including translations, juveniles, and nonfiction, as well as novels and short-story collections, was one of the most popular and engaging American writers of the first half of the twentieth century.
		In addition to her writing, Fisher had a lifelong involvement in charitable work and social causes--so much so that Eleanor Roosevelt called her one of the most influential women of her time.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall1997/madigan.htm (533 words)

	TOUR: Arlington, Vermont - Home of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
		Fisher based her literary career from her home at the foot of Red Mountain in Arlington.
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher's grave is located in the cemetery adjacent to the St. James Episcopal Church on Vermont Historic Route 7A in Arlington, across from the Martha Canfield Memorial Free Library.
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher was one of the Arlington residents who played a part in Rockwell's Vermont years.
	www.unl.edu /Cather/resources/tours/arlington.html (634 words)

	Dorothy Canfield Fisher
		Montessori, Maria Dr. met with D. Canfield Fisher in Rome and shared methods of educating children; Fisher wrote many books about the Montessori method.
		22) states: "D. Canfield Fisher was born into a distinguished and cultivated family that gave her a fine education and a sense of self-worth.
		Her strong principles underpin her beliefs and writing; that she was to extend these concerns to independent women, to new forms of education, and to issues of racial oppression and respect for individual merit was the core of her achievement."
	www-distance.syr.edu /pvitadcf.html (652 words)

	UPNE \| Seasoned Timber
		Originally published in 1939, Fisher's last novel is remarkably prescient in its defense of human rights and the ramifications of their denial.
		"Dorothy Canfield's new novel is a fine seasoned piece of timber itself, a product of Vermont thought and breeding, a piece of Americana as authentic as a salt-box house or a pine cupboard.
		Named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the US, Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879 - 1958) brought the Montessori Method of child-rearing to America, presided over the country's first adult education program, and influenced American literary tastes as a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee from 1926 to 1951.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-87451-753-2.html (563 words)

	Robert Frost's Hilltop
		Frost knew Dorothy Canfield Fisher of Arlington Vt. as a fellow writer and storyteller.
		It was Fisher who encouraged the Frosts to come to Vermont and she actually helped them find the Stone House in Shaftsbury.
		Fisher had apparently sent an early draft of her article to Frost while he was in hay-fever retreat in New Hampshire.
	www.frostfriends.org /fisher.html (1343 words)

	NCW--Dorothea Canfield Fisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		DOROTHEA CANFIELD FISHER was born in 1870 in Lawrence, Kansas.
		Though it was not a very long time, it was long enough to a writing companion and lifelong friend in the young Willa Cather, with whom she co-wrote a story ("The Fear That Walks by Noonday").
		Fisher earned a BA from Ohio State Uinversity in 1904 and a PhD in French from Columbia University.
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /NCW/fisher.htm (156 words)

	Search Results for "Canfield" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A well-known gambling operator in Providence, R.I., Canfield went in the 1880s to New...
		...Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958, American novelist and juvenile writer, b.
		Jerome was the prosecutor in the trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Canfield (159 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dorothy Canfield Fisher (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879–1958, American novelist and juvenile writer, b.
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	Enit Kaufman: An Inventory of Her American Portraits Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher wrote the biographical profiles which accompanied Kaufman's portraits of eminent Americans.
		The authors were interested in the nature of leadership, and asked many of their subjects, often leaders in their fields, to write down their thoughts on the subject.
		Kaufman and Canfield Fisher initially considered incorporating these responses into American Portraits; instead, these Statements of Leadership were featured in a piece in the Sunday edition of the New York Times in 1951.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00066/hrc-00066.html (896 words)

	Dorothy Canfield Fisher
		When Dorothy Canfield Fisher died, her associates at the Book of the Month Club said in a statement: "She was more than an American of great ability.
		Fisher, or Arlington, was one of the country's most popular novelists, founder of the first adult education program in the country, and served as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1926 to 1951.
		Her novels were popular nationally -- "The Brimming Cup" was the second most popular novel in 1921 after Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street." But in Vermont she has been known mostly for her passionate writings about the state.
	www.vermonttoday.com /century/mostinflu/dcfisher.html (352 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - Literary Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Awards are chosen by the children of Vermont each year.
		The award, first given in 1957, is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries.
		For more information about the award and lists of past winners visit the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Page.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/resource_awards_dorothy.html (75 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Bedquilt and Other Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In "Through Pity and Terror...," Fisher, who founded a hospital for refugee children in France during WWI, draws on firsthand experience to describe a young mother's struggle to survive as German soldiers ransack her home and her husband's pharmacy.
		A forgotten author who is well worth remembering, Fisher (1879^-1958) was a highly regarded and prolific novelist and short story writer in her heyday, the 1920s through the early 1940s.
		The placid surfaces of Fisher's stories, achieved by a consummately limpid style, do not blunt their effectiveness as honest explorations of emotional provinces.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/082621035X (538 words)

	Fisher School, Arlington, Vermont
		Fisher Elementary School aspires to establish an environment where students and faculty can develop in a climate of caring and trust.
		We commit ourselves to creating an instructional process whereby all students are able to achieve to their academic potential.
		Finally, we at Fisher wish to nurture a sense of school pride that is felt and recognized by students, faculty and community.
	www.fisher.k12.vt.us (70 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the New England writer Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958), whose novels, short stories, and nonfiction reflected traditional American values.
		She was born Dorothea Frances Canfield in Lawrence, Kansas, but after inheriting her grandfather's farm in Arlington, Vermont she made Vermont not only her lifetime home but the locale of many of her stories.
		In 1904 Fisher received a Ph.D. in Romance languages from Columbia University, which at the time was an exceptional accomplishment for a woman, and in 1907 she married John Redwood Fisher and, under the pen name "Dorothy Canfield," published her first novel.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=538 (276 words)

	Persephone Books - Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Home-Maker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Home-Maker, like Fidelity, is a novel that has to be recommended by word of mouth because Dorothy Canfield Fisher is not (yet) well known in this country.
		The discussion that ensued about role-swapping and 'children's rights' (which is what Dorothy Canfield Fisher herself defined as the subject of the novel) was the liveliest we have had yet.
		This is one of the greatest novels ever written about childhood, especially about a child's autonomy and sense of self-worth being eroded by his parents' well-meaning but foolish attempts to discipline him 'for his own good'.
	www.persephonebooks.co.uk /books/home.htm (617 words)

	Dorothy Canfield Fisher
		Dorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 1900's.
		Canfield brought the Montessori method of child rearing to the United States, presided over the country's first adult education program, and served as a member of the Book-of-the-Month club selection committee from 1925 to 1951.
		She spoke five languages fluently and wrote novels, short stories, memoirs, and educational works.
	www.fisher.k12.vt.us /dcfisher.htm (329 words)

	Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"This fine volume is enhanced by a chronology of Fisher's life, an explanation of Madigan's editing practice, primary and secondary bibliographies, a 'Calendar of Letters,' a guide to 'Notable Recipients,' and a detailed index.
		His introduction is a model of its kind: clearly organized, informative, gracefully written, it provides essential biographical information, suggests his estimate of Fisher's importance, and sets her within cultural as well as literary context.
		Fisher is one of those writers destined for a breakthrough in the scholarship, and Mark Madigan's edition of letters is just the thing to make that breakthrough happen."-- Susan J. Rosowski
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/otherbooks/madigan.htm (248 words)

	DCF Children's Book Award - Vermont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is an opening on the DCF committee beginning October 18, 2005.
		The Dorothy Canfield Children's Book Award, first given in 1957, is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries.
		The Dorothy Canfield Fisher books are carefully selected and highly recommended by a committee of eight, but because maturity level and interest level may vary from community to community, each library should choose the books in accordance with its own selection policy.
	homepage.mac.com /crowleyvt/dcfaward/dcf (293 words)

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