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![]() ![]() Their method is based on the observing of young children, learning about their characteristics and needs and emphasizing the uniqueness of each child. As well as adult books she also wrote for children, one of the most well known being Understood Betsy, portraying a school run on Montessori lines. ![]() Dorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformar and was responsible for introducing the Montessori Method of child rearing to the US. The never ending drudgery involved in the day to day living in stories such as Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge and the Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher seems unbelievable to a modern woman and the Fisher title, my most favourite Persephone of all, is a perfect illustration of a woman trapped and suffering in this daily grind. These elegant books with their grey covers and beautiful end papers chronicle the lives of women between and during the World Wars and as, with a few exceptions, the books are written by women and because of their time frame, it is inevitable that most of them will have a strong domestic background. ![]() As we all know by now, Persephone Books wasįounded for the purpose of ' republishing new and rediscovered 20th century fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women'. ![]()
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