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10 July 2017

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On Wednesday, in the shop, we are showing the 1925 film of The Home-Maker. What a profound and extraordinary book this is! And what a profound and extraordinary woman Dorothy Canfield Fisher was! This week on the Post we celebrate her: here she is with her father James Canfield, then the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, in the 1890s when she was in her late teens.

 

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