Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(1879–1958)

American educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling author in the early decades of the twentieth century

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Works edit

Novels edit

Short stories and collections edit

Individual stories edit

  • "An April Masque" in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1910 (included in The Real Motive)
  • "The Artist" in Scribner's Magazine, Mar 1911
  • "The Conviction of Sin" in Harper's Magazine, May 1915
  • "Gifts of Oblivion" in Harper's Magazine, Sep 1913
  • "The King of France" in Munsey's Magazine, Mar 1909
  • "Moonshine" (2 part sl) in Munsey's Magazine, Aug-Sep 1906
  • "The Music-Master's Wife" in Munsey's Magazine, Aug 1906
  • "A Philanthropic Honeymoon" in Munsey's Magazine, May 1906
  • ' "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful" ' in Scribner's Magazine, May 1911
  • "Poet and Scullery-Maid" in Munsey's Magazine, Nov 1908
  • "Portrait of a Philosopher" in Scribner's Magazine, Apr 1911
  • "The Westerner" in Scribner's Magazine, Feb 1911

Non-fiction edit

  • Corneille and Racine in England (1904) (dissertation) (start transcription) IA
  • English Rhetoric and Composition (1906) aka Elementary Composition (with G. R. Carpenter) (start transcription) IA
  • What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Puzzles (with others) (1906) (start transcription) Project Gutenberg
  • A Montessori Mother (1912) (start transcription) IA
  • A Montessori Manual (1913) IA
  • Mothers and Children (1914) IA
  • Self-Reliance: a practical and informal discussion of methods of teaching self-reliance, initiative and responsibility to modern children (1916) IA
  • Life of Christ (1923) by Giovanni Papini, freely trans. from the Italian by Dorothy Canfield Fisher IA
  • "Observations on French Schools" in The Century Magazine, Sep 1917
  • "Young America and Old France" in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Mar1918
  • "Khaki Confidences at Château-Thierry" in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Nov 1918

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1958, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 65 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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