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Biography

Name: Dorothy (Frances) Canfield Fisher
Variant Name: Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Dorothy Frances Canfield Fisher, Dorothea F. Canfield, Dorothea Frances Canfield, Dorothy Canfield, Stanley Cranshaw, Dorothea Francis Canfield, Dorothea Frances Canfield Fisher
Birth Date: February 17, 1879
Death Date: November 9, 1958
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Dorothy (Frances) Canfield Fisher
1,410 words, approx. 5 pages
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 of her childhood in travel. Mrs. Canfield had a...
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Biography of Dorothy (Frances) Canfield Fisher
3,631 words, approx. 12 pages
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 Writing , in 1956. Fisher used her maiden name, Dorothy...


Quotations
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. If we would only give, just once, the same amount of...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Information
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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 decades of the Twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt one of the ten most...


News and Journals
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Legacy
Writers of Conviction: The Personal Politics of Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Wilder Lane, and Josephine Herbst
10/31/2005: 786 words, approx. 3 pages
By Julia C. Ehrhardt. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. 224 pp. $39.95 Scholarship on early twentieth-century popular women writers stands today in much the same position as scholarship on nineteenth-century American women writers some twenty years ago: writers who were once critically...
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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Writers of Conviction: The Personal Politics of Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Wilder Lane, and Josephine Herbst.(Book Review)
06/01/2005: 778 words, approx. 3 pages
Writers of Conviction: The Personal Politics of Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Wilder Lane, and Josephine Herbst. By Julia C. Ehrhardt. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. 224 pp. $39.95 Scholarship on early twentieth-century popular women writers stands today in much...
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AP News
Today in history - June 10
6/10/2007: 594 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Sunday, June 10, the 161st day of 2007. There are 204 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on June 10, 1907, 11 men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mark J. Madigan
10,087 words, approx. 34 pages
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 and writing that are revealed in her letters.
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Critical Essay by Joseph J. Firebaugh
5,975 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Firebaugh investigates the moral component of Fisher's novel The Deepening Stream.
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Critical Essay by Joseph P. Lovering
4,541 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Lovering details the friendship as well as the personal and literary affinities of Fisher and Willa Cather.
 


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