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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Chronology

compiled by Mark J. Madigan


Keeping Fires Night and Day

The Bedquilt and Other Storie
s

edited by Mark J. Madigan

1873
(June) Flavia A. Camp and James Hulme Canfield marry.

1879
(February 17) DCF born in Lawrence, Kansas; father is professor of Political Economy and Sociology at University of Kansas, mother is artist; DCF spends summers at Canfield relatives' house in Arlington, Vermont.
1890 (Winter) DCF makes first trip to Europe, accompanies mother to Paris; later attends French schools.
1891 Fishers move to Lincoln, Nebraska;father becomes chancellor of the state university where Willa Cather is a student.
1894 Publishes "The Fear That Walks by Noonday"(collaboration with Willa

Cather) in University of Nebraska yearbook.
1895 Fishers move to Columbus, Ohio; father becomes president of Ohio State University, where DCF enrolls as student.
1899 (Spring) DCF graduates from OSU. Father resigns presidency, becomes

librarian of Columbia University, New York. (Fall) DCF begins graduate

work in French at the Sorbonne in Paris.
1902 (March) First professional publication, New York Times article on Holy

Week in Spain; (Fall) Travels with Willa Cather in Europe.
1903 Turns down assistant professorship at Western Reserve University,

Cleveland, Ohio.
1904 (Spring) Receives Ph.D. from Columbia; (May) dissertation, Corneille and Racine in England, is published by Columbia University Press. (May) Meets John Fisher. (Fall) Accepts job as "secretary" at Horace Mann School, New York City. (Winter) Quarrels with Willa Cather over "The Profile.''Publishes stories in magazines.
1906 (Summer) Travels in Germany, Norway, and France.