Dorothy Canfield

The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the United States. Her best-known work today is probably Understood Betsy, a children's book about a little orphaned girl who is sent to live with her cousins in Vermont, and her other works include The Bent Twig, The Squirrel-Cage, The Sturdy Oak and others.