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Dorothy Canfield (Dorothy Canfield Fisher)

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879–1958, American novelist and juvenile writer, b. Lawrence, Kans., grad. Ohio State, 1899, Ph.D. Columbia, 1904. Her novels include The Bent Twig (1915), The Deepening Stream (1930), Seasoned Timber (1939), and Four-square (1949). She also wrote short stories; Vermont Tradition (1953), personal views of Vermont life; and several notable juvenile books, including Understood Betsy (1916) and Something Old, Something New (1949).

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright© 2012, The Columbia University Press.

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Home Fires in France
Dorothy Canfield. H. Holt and Company, 1918
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Raw Material
Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1923
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Her Son's Wife
Dorothy Canfield. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1926
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Day of Glory
Dorothy Canfield. H. Holt and Company, 1919
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Women's Writing on the First World War
Agnès Cardinal; Dorothy Goldman; Judith Hattaway. Oxford University Press, 1999
Librarian’s tip: Chap. 9 "La Pharmacienne" by Dorothy Canfield
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American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960
Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, vol.1, 1997
Librarian’s tip: "Dorothy Canfield Fisher" begins on p. 104
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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Laurie Champion. Greenwood Press, 2000
Librarian’s tip: "Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)" begins on p. 113
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Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties
Patricia Raub. Greenwood Press, 1994
Librarian’s tip: Discussion of Dorothy Canfield begins on p. 17
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