By Emma Ward | On June 11, 2017 | Updated November 10, 2022 | Comments (0)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879 – 1958) was a teacher, novelist, nonfiction writer, social activist, and traveler. Coming from a cosmopolitan background of professors, she was able to obtain a college education that was enviable for a woman of her time. Here is presented selection of timeless quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher on life and love.
Fisher’s best-known work is Understood Betsy (1917), a children’s book; she was also known in her time for The Bed-Quilt and other short stories and novels that had a quietly subversive edge to them.
She earned her doctorate in Romance Languages at the Sorbonne. Upon the outbreak of World War I, Fisher and her husband and children left their farm in Vermont to help in the French war effort. Read More→
By Emma Ward | On June 8, 2017 | Updated March 9, 2023 | Comments (0)
Daphne du Maurier was a British novelist, playwright, and short story writer. She grew up in a creative family, which inspired her to write from a young age. Here you’ll find a selection of words of wisdom and quotes by Daphne du Maurier, the author who brought us these and other mid-twentieth century classics.
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After publishing her first novel, The Loving Spirit, at age 22 she went on to write among other classic works Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn, and the haunting story that became a terrifying Hitchcock film, The Birds.
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By Emma Ward | On June 8, 2017 | Updated May 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
Edna Ferber (1885 – 1968), the prolific American novelist and playwright, began her career as a newspaper reporter in Appleton, Wisconsin. Following is a selection of quotes by Edna Ferber on writing and living.
Her stories were slices of Americana, ranging far from the events and experiences of her own life.
As a Jewish woman and and daughter of immigrants, she didn’t shy away from weaving issues of gender, class, and race into her colorful sagas. Many of her novels were adapted into films and Broadway shows. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On June 7, 2017 | Updated November 10, 2022 | Comments (0)
Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen (1891 – 1964) based on the author’s personal experiences with what was called “the color line.” This sensitive novel came just one year before her masterwork, the 1929 short novel Passing.
Helga Crane, the main character, is the mixed-race daughter of a white Danish mother and a black father, as Larsen was. The plot takes her back and forth from Denmark, “Naxos” (a thinly veiled version of the Tuskegee Institute, where Larsen worked briefly), and Harlem.
Wherever Helga goes, she fails to find a community in which she can be comfortable with who she is. Read More→
By Emma Ward | On June 4, 2017 | Updated October 27, 2022 | Comments (0)
Eleanor Estes was a children’s book author/illustrator, a librarian, and a recipient of the Newbery Medal. Following is a selection of quotes by Eleanor Estes from her best known classic books for kids.
Many of Estes’ stories are based on her personal childhood. experiences. Her first book, The Moffats, was published in 1941, followed closely by The Middle Moffat, and Rufus M.
The Moffats series was an immediate success, both at home and abroad, semi-autobiographical tales of the author’s own childhood. Another of her classics is The Hundred Dresses (1944).
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