Hillsboro people 1915 [Leather Bound]

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Sarah N. Cleghorn

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Genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Classics

371 pages, Leather Bound

First published January 1, 1915

About the author

Also wrote under the name Dorothy Canfield.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Majenta · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 1/2 stars. Good people, good stories, good writing.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

The more I explore the backwaters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher's story collections, the more inclined I am to think that anyone who likes her novels and wants to read her short fiction most likely doesn't need to read further than the collection A Harvest of Stories: From a Half Century of Writing. (Those of her readers who are hoping to find something akin to Understood Betsy, will not, alas find that anywhere else in her oeuvre). Only completists would find plowing through the widely varying quality of the stories here worthwhile. Some are overly melodramatic. Some are a little too smug about the virtues of small town Vermont life in the mountains (apparently the only wholesome place to live). Although Canfield had Vermont forebears, and settled there as an adult, she was actually raised in college towns in the Midwest, and traveled a lot in Europe, and perhaps she has something of the convert's zeal about New England country ways. I think the best stories here tend to be ones told in the first person by a narrator who is to some extent an outsider, as she herself must have always remained, at least slightly, despite all her green mountain cheer leading.

Three of the stories here are collected in a Harvest of Stories. There are two that I quite liked that aren't. One is "A Village Munchausen," which as a story is pleasantly twisty, but which at heart is about a girl's bond with her grandfather. I think she learned from his mistake not to take anyone's comforting illusions away, and at that point, her grandfather's penance was a comfort to him. The other is "A Drop in the Bucket" about a socialist cobbler who sets up shop next door to a staid, complacent, old lady. He wakes her up to some of the ills of wretchedly suffering people in the cities, only to be infuriated by the action she takes as a result...

So bottom line, since I am a completist where my favorite authors are concerned, I'm glad to have read through this volume, but it's not one I will especially treasure.

[Amy Griffith · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just didn't care for this book. I love Understood Betsy and was hoping for something similar. This collection of short stories was nothing like that. Some of them were for adults only (one centered around an illegitimate birth), and others espoused a disbelief in heaven and hell. To be fair, the stories were well-written, but I didn't care for them.

[Bethany Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

some wonderful old fashioned stories!

[Bettie]

nutty nuut