Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Im hoping to write a blog on Fisher's writing soon. She is an American author, born in 1879, in Lawrence, Kansas. Her father was a history professor and her mother was an artist. She was a prolific writer who also was involved in educational reform and in war relief work in Europe. She studied at the University of Kansas. She also studied languages in Paris. In 1907 she married John Redwood Fisher. During the War, she went with him to France and became involved in war work. After the war, she went on writing and also got involved in promoting the Montessori Method of education for young children. One of her novels which I like is the Home Maker. It is set in America, about a husband and wife, who swap roles. The husband is injured in an accident and confined to bed. His wife, who has never enjoyed housework and is impatient with her children, takes on a sales job, and finds she is very good at it. At home, her husband starts to manage the house and take care of the children and he enjoys it a lot, and the children are happier. But as he recovers he realises that he would prefer to stay home and let his wife earn a living which she likes doing. His doctor realises this and says that he is still injured and will never be much better, so he has an excuse for staying home and being a house husband.. and his wife does well at her job. I hope to blog some more about her later.