Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958)
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Author Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born in Lawrence, Kansas on February 17, 1879. She received a Ph.D. in romance languages from Columbia University in 1904. She wrote novels, short stories, children's books, educational works, and memoirs. In 1912, she met Maria Montessori in Italy and was so mostra altro impressed by the educator's theories that she wrote A Montessori Mother, The Montessori Manual, and Mothers and Children. She worked for many environmental, children's and education causes in the 1940s and 1950s. She died in Arlington, Vermont on November 9, 1958. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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(eng) This author's works of fiction were under her birth name, Dorothy Canfield; works of non-fiction were published under her married name, Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
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Opere di Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Why stop learning? 4 copie
Memories of my home town, 2 copie
Montesoriska Motina 2 copie
As ye sow 1 copia
Sex Education [short story] 1 copia
Aces 1 copia
Vermont summer homes 1 copia
Opere correlate
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1936 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1936) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1928 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1928) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Uncle Lisha's Shop and A Danvis Pioneer — Introduzione — 2 copie
My Friend Flicka, The Apprentice, Old Ben — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors) (1943) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
First Love: Stories by Sixteen of Today's Great Authors of Romantic Fiction (1948) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Dynamo Farm: A 4-H Story — Prefazione — 1 copia
Stories for girls — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Canfield, Dorothea Frances
- Altri nomi
- Canfield, Dorothy (pen name)
- Data di nascita
- 1879-02-17
- Data di morte
- 1958-11-09
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- Lawrence, Kansas, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Arlington, Vermont, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Paris, France
Arlington, Vermont, USA - Istruzione
- Ohio State University (BA ∙ 1899)
The Sorbonne, Paris, France
Columbia University (PhD ∙ 1904) - Attività lavorative
- educational reformer
children's book author
social activist
writer
translator
memoirist - Relazioni
- Cather, Willa (friend)
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1931)
Book-of-the-Month Club - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
- Breve biografia
- Dorothea Frances Canfield was born in Lawrence, Kansas, to James Hulme Canfield, an educator, and Flavia Camp, an artist and writer. Her father became a professor at the University of Kansas and later chancellor of the University of Nebraska and president of Ohio State University. As a child, she spent much time visiting her mother's family in Vermont, which served as the setting for many of her books. At age 10, she spent a year in Paris while her mother studied art, and became fluent in French. She graduated from Ohio State University and went on to study Romance languages at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Columbia University, where she earned a doctoral degree. She co-wrote the textbook English Rhetoric and Composition (1906). In 1907, she married John Redwood Fisher, with whom she had two children. In 1911, after visiting the "children's houses" in Rome established by Maria Montessori, she endeavored to introduce the Montessori method in the USA. She translated Montessori's books into English. She and their children accompanied her husband to France when he volunteered to work with the U.S. Army ambulance service and as an officer with the Medical Corps during World War I. She worked to establish a Braille press for blinded war veterans and the Bidart home for refugee children. In 1918, she published a memoir, Home Fires in France. She also wrote 22 novels, plus short stories, educational works, and literary criticism. She was renowned for her support of women's rights and racial equality. See also The Lady from Vermont: Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Life and World by Elizabeth Yates (1971) and Dorothy Canfield Fisher – A Biography by Ida H. Washington (1982).
- Nota di disambiguazione
- This author's works of fiction were under her birth name, Dorothy Canfield; works of non-fiction were published under her married name, Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
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Discussioni
AMERICAN AUTHORS CHALLENGE--OCTOBER 2023--DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER in 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (Ottobre 2023)
Virago Monthly Reads: Feb 2018: Dorothy Canfield Fisher in Virago Modern Classics (Marzo 2018)
old kids book, city girl on a farm in Name that Book (Ottobre 2012)
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Out of Copyright (1)
Ambleside Books (1)
discontinued (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
Female Author (1)
Elevenses (1)
1970s (3)
Ambleside Y2 (1)
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- Opere correlate
- 45
- Utenti
- 5,241
- Popolarità
- #4,756
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 75
- ISBN
- 270
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 6