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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Chronology
compiled by Mark J. Madigan
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(June) Flavia A. Camp and James Hulme Canfield marry.
(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 ton, Vermont.
(Winter) DCF makes first trip to Europe, accompanies mother to Paris; later
attends French schools.
Fishers move to Lincoln, Nebraska;father becomes chancellor of the state
university where Willa Cather is a student.
Publishes "The Fear That Walks by Noonday"(collaboration with Willa
Cather) in University of Nebraska yearbook.
Fishers move to Columbus, Ohio; father becomes president of Ohio State
University, where DCF enrolls as student.
(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.
(March) First professional publication, New York Times article on Holy
Week in Spain; (Fall) Travels with Willa Cather in Europe.
Turns down assistant professorship at Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio.
(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.
(Summer) Travels in Germany, Norway, and France.
Elementary Composition(with George R. Carpenter) published by
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