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Dorothea Frances Canfield was born in Lawrence, Kansas, the daughter of Flavia Camp Canfield, an artist, and James Hulme Canfield, a professor of economics at the University of Kansas. She spent much ...
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (née Dorothea Frances Canfield) published her first collection of short stories, Hillsboro People, in 1915 and her last, A Harvest of Stories, from a Half Century of Wr...
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In the following essay, Williams surveys Fisher's life and works of short fiction.
In the twentieth century it is possible for one, before she is forty years of age, to be a doctor of philosop...
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In the following essay, Madigan considers Willa Cather's exhortation to prose writers that they simplify their style in relation to her estimate of Fisher's novels Rough-Hewn, The Deepen...
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In the following introduction to his edition of Fisher's collected correspondence, Madigan investigates Fisher's life and literary career, and surveys the many qualities of her character...
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In the following essay, Mann presents an overview of Fisher's work—primarily her novels—and compliments the novelist's ability to reflect life and truth accurately,
No one...
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In the following essay, Overton discusses Fisher's life and her major novels, concluding that Her Son's Wife is Fisher's finest work up to that time.
Very fortunately for her wor...
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In the following essay, Wyckoff examines Fisher's novels and argues against the common view of her as only a popular novelist.
Dorothy Canfield has been a famous novelist for a good many years ...
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In the following excerpt, Phelps offers his appraisal of Fisher's early novels and summarizes the strengths and faults of her writing.
One day more than twenty years ago as I was at work in my...
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In the following excerpt, Boynton looks at Fisher's novels set in Vermont and finds Bonfire to be her finest story of the New England region.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, invincible Vermonter, has ...
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In the following essay, Firebaugh investigates the moral component of Fisher's novel The Deepening Stream.
Two or three years ago I shocked an elder colleague in a Department of English by sayi...
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In the following review, MacAfee favorably assesses Fisher's Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life.
It is not always easy for the reader of this book, [Vermont Tradition: The B...
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In the following essay, Lovering details the friendship as well as the personal and literary affinities of Fisher and Willa Cather.
Most readers know of the many friends that Willa Cather had and trea...
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Dorothy (Frances) Canfield Fisher
Critical Essay by Blanche Colton Williams
