Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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English
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Though first published in 1924, this novel holds up well in light of the contemporary discussion and disruption of traditional gender roles. Our protagonist, Evangeline Knapp, is the model housewife and mother to three young children. She keeps her home in immaculate condition; her children are likewise clean and proper. Dinner is served hot, on time, and on a set table. Outwardly, Evangeline is the perfect housewife, but inwardly, she detests her...
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H. Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[1926]
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English
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first...
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English
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"Nobody values anything for its endurance nowadays," T. C. Hulme, headmaster of the Clifford, Vermont Academy muses. Long devoted to the school and to his eccentric aunt, T. C. is increasingly aware that life is passing him by. His hopes are renewed when he falls in love with a new teacher 20 years his junior. But as Dorothy Canfield Fisher shows, neither love nor Academy life runs smooth. A younger suitor steps in, and a rich, out-of-state trustee...
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Harcourt, Brace and Company
Pub. Date
[c1930]
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English
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1930. American novelist and juvenile writer, Canfield begins The Deepening Stream: When people talked about things they could remember Matey always wondered which kind of remembering they meant-the kind that was just a sort of knowing how something in the past had happened or the other kind when suddenly everything seemed to be happening all over again. Why did time fade out some memories so that they didn't seem any more real than a story in a book?...
13) Rough-hewn
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English
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the United States. 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...
19) Her son's wife
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Virago modern classic volume no. 220
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English
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Set in a small town, her preferred milieu, she asks the question whether it is permissible to damage a mother's life in order to save her child. The protagonist watches her son marry a silly and shallow woman, who proceeds to do a worthless job raising the new baby. Now in grandmother status, the protagonist watches the disaster of her grand-daughter's life unfold, until she concludes that drastic measures are required. She allows her daughter-in-law...