Understood Betsy - Illustrated

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was a bestselling author, social activist, and educational reformer. She brought the Montessori Method of child-rearing to America, presided over the country's first adult-education program, and influenced American literary tastes as a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee from 1926 to 1951. She wrote twenty-two works of fiction and eighteen nonfiction books on a wide range of subjects. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt named her as one of the ten most influential women in the United States.