Person Record
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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield |
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher was a famous literary figure and a fervent supporter of the arts. She is best known as an author of popular short stories and novels, as a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and as a proponent of the Montessori method of child-rearing. Yet, it may have been her role as a friend and supporter to numerous artists, attracting many of them to live and work in her hometown of Arlington, which had the greatest impact on our region’s cultural makeup. She is a controversial figure today because of insensitive language in some of her writing and her ties to the Vermont Commission on Country Life, which was charged with revitalizing the state's Yankee roots and associated with the eugenics movement. |
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