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Dorothy Canfield (Dorothea Frances Canfield) was born on 17 February, 1879 in Lawrence, Kansas, U.S., is an American author and social activist (1879–1958). Discover Dorothy Canfield's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

Popular As Dorothea Frances Canfield
Occupation Writer, educator
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 17 February, 1879
Birthday 17 February
Birthplace Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Date of death 9 November, 1958
Died Place Arlington, Vermont
Nationality United States

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Her husband is John Redwood Fisher (m. 1907)

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1877

From 1877 to 1891 her father was a University of Kansas professor with responsibility for various historical studies, and finally president of the National Education Association.

Later he was chancellor of the University of Nebraska, president of Ohio State University, and librarian at Columbia University.

Canfield Fisher is most closely associated with Vermont, where she and her mother made trips to the family home and where she spent her adult life.

Vermont also served as the setting for many of her books.

1879

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.

Dorothea Frances Canfield – named for Dorothea Brooke of the novel Middlemarch – was born on February 17, 1879, in Lawrence, Kansas to James Hulme Canfield and Flavia Camp, an artist and writer.

1899

In 1899 Canfield received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio State University, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

She went on to study Romance languages at the University of Paris and Columbia University (where her father was Librarian from 1899) and earned a doctoral degree from Columbia with the dissertation Corneille and Racine in English (1904).

Their letters, from 1899 to 1947, reveal a lasting and complicated friendship.

Cather wrote a short story that may have satirized Canfield's mother, called "Flavia and Her Artists"—sparking ten years of interrupted friendship between Canfield Fisher and Cather.

Other writers who corresponded with Canfield Fisher included Henry Seidel Canby, Richard Wright, Heywood Broun, Witter Bynner, Isak Dinesen, and Robert Frost.

Canfield Fisher worked with the following organizations over the course of her life.

1906

With George Rice Carpenter from Columbia she co-wrote English Rhetoric and Composition (1906).

She was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Dartmouth College and received others from the University of Nebraska, Middlebury College, Swarthmore College, Smith College, Williams College, Ohio State University, and the University of Vermont.

1907

She married John Redwood Fisher in 1907, and they had two children, a daughter, Sally, and a son, Jimmy.

1909

Her daughter Sally was born in 1909.

She married John Paul Scott and they lived in Bar Harbor, Maine.

1911

In 1911, Canfield Fisher visited the "children's houses" in Rome established by Maria Montessori.

Much impressed, she joined the cause to bring the method back to the U.S., translating Montessori's book into English and writing five of her own: three nonfiction and two novels.

Another concern of Canfield Fisher was her war work.

1913

Her son James (Jimmy) was born in 1913 and during World War II became a surgeon and captain in the U.S. Army.

1916

She followed her husband to France in 1916 during World War I and while raising her young children in Paris worked to establish a Braille press for blinded veterans.

She also established a convalescent home for refugee French children from the invaded areas; continuing her relief work after the war, she earned citations of appreciation from Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and the government of Denmark.

Canfield Fisher engaged in social activism in many aspects of education and politics.

1917

She managed the first adult education program in the U.S. She did war-relief work in 1917 in France, establishing the Bidart Home for Children for refugees and organizing an effort to print books in Braille for blinded combat veterans.

1919

In 1919, she was appointed to the State Board of Education of Vermont to help improve rural public education.

She spent years promoting education and rehabilitation/reform in prisons, especially women's prisons.

1921

After the war, she was the head of the U.S. committee that led to the pardoning of conscientious objectors in 1921, and sponsored financial and emigration assistance to Jewish educators, professionals, and intellectuals.

After her son was killed in World War II, she arranged a fellowship at Harvard Medical School for the two Philippine surgeons who tried to save his life.

Canfield Fisher and Willa Cather's decades-long relationship intensely revolved around their writing.

1925

In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951.

1944

He served with the Alamo Scouts for three months at the end of 1944.

Afterwards, his Ranger unit rescued Allied prisoners of war at Cabanatuan in the Philippines.

1945

Fisher died on Luzon, January 31, 1945.

1958

By 1958 she had published 18 children's books as Sally Scott.

Canfield Fisher's granddaughter Vivian Scott also writes children's books.

Canfield Fisher died at the age of 79 in Arlington, Vermont in 1958.

Her husband died the following year.