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12 July 2017
This is a heartrendingly wonderful photograph – the young girl’s beauty has been overlaid with the beauty of the older woman who has too much going on in her life (and in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s case has endured WW1 at first hand in France). She is maybe 40. She is exactly how a woman of 40 should look… She was at the height of her writing career and about to write The Home-Maker.
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