Raw Material

by Dorothy Canfield

Overview

In this collection of sketches which the author calls an unrelated unorganized bundle of facts the sort of thing from which a novelist nakes principal or secondary characters or episodes in a novel she has attempted to describe men and women odds and ends of observation with complete objectivity avoiding as much possible all meditations and moralizings. The intention is to demonstrate that it is within the power of everybody to get first hand impressions of life and find in them a vividness and purity that is lost in a literary production. --.Literary Digest International Book Review - Volume 1 - Page 44 (1923)

RAW MATERIAL By Dorothy Canfield Canfield's new book is and simply told generous in spirit stories of people we all know The work of a master observer in all that moves the human heart. --The Literary Digest International Book Review - Page 8 (1924)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162380658
Publisher:	Anthony Bly
Publication date:	09/13/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	484 KB

About the Author

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th 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.