Author: Washington, Ida H.,
Title: Dorothy Canfield Fisher: a biography.
Description: Shelburne, Vermont, New England Press, (1982). VG in VG DJ. Life and writings of an important 20th century woman author whose novels, short stories and non-fiction have delighted. generations of readers. Sensitive to dangerous trends in American society at the beginning of the century, Fisher spoke out against materialism and the dehumanizing aspects of industrialization and decried war and those ideologiesthathreaten basic human rights.Her novels also threaten human right and social discirmination, religions, and racial intolerance and all forms of brutality and fraud. Far ahead of her times, she wrote of the waste of human resources implicit in consigning women to roles of limited social usefulness and in her own life she constantly expanded her activities to include new areas of service. Her interest in parenting, child development, and public education led her to champion progressive, innovative education and to popularize the ideas of Maria Montessori in America.

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