Reviews for The lady from Vermont

The average rating for The lady from Vermont based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-14 00:00:00 Bosanadeljazero Butts I found this book moving and inspiring. (I read it as a teenager, but just re-read.) It's not what I'd call a "critical" biography. Yates was a huge admirer and paints Canfield in a very positive light. But I think it does demonstrate that Canfield Fisher devoted her life to helping human beings understand and respect each other. She used her writing, but also the power her success as a writer brought to her. She lived her life as simply as she could, and seemed to me to have a big and generous heart and an open-minded and questioning mind. And she did MUCH to promote reading in this country! She was very much loved by most who knew her and read her work in the first half of the 20th century. The only other biography I know of is by Ida Washington from 1982; I'll read that soon.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-23 00:00:00 Scott Melanson Helen Bevington, PhB'26 Author From the publisher: "“What does one learn by taking a journey, any journey?” Helen Bevington asks. 'I’ve taken a shaky trip through a decade (to Russia, to the mailbox, to bed) to the end of the 1970s, about which uncomplimentary and increasingly anxious remarks were made by us all—you, me, and the media.' This is a book of journeys, to places—Russia, Hawaii, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, the South Seas, the Rhine, Australia, New Zealand, New Mexico—and to the classroom at Duke University where she was Professor of English until her retirement in 1976. Since everything is a journey, the book is concerned with travel of all kinds, in books, in memories, in people living and dead, a lighthearted search for Eden on this planet but a more serious search for survival in the troubled decade of the 1970s."