biography
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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
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née Dorothea Frances Canfield
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| female
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| lived:
| (1879–1958)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. She studied Romance languages at Columbia University, then became a writer, publishing her early fiction and later non-fiction under her maiden and married names respectively. Among other contributions to education she popularized the Montessori teaching method in the USA in the 1910s. She was also a founding member of the Book-of-the-Month Club editorial board (1926–50). |
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