An ahead-of-its-time novel, The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (at the time known as Dorothy Canfield), published in 1924 by Harcourt, Brace & Co., imagined a domestic role-reversal.

A reversal of gender roles in the home was quite a bold circumstance to consider in the 1920s. As parents, the protagonists Evangeline and Lester Knapp were both unhappily going through the motions of their traditional roles. An accident forced them to reverse roles, and from that adversity, their family found strength and happiness.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879 – 1958) was an American author, educational reformer, and social activist based in New England and identified most closely with Vermont. She earned a Ph.D in 1905, was able to speak five languages, and worked for the cause of refugees in Europe. Read More→