SOURCE: Farr, Vanessa A. “Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Dorothy Canfield and the Domestic Space of the Great War.” Focus on Robert Graves and His Contemporaries 2, no. 3 (spring 1995): 16-20.

In the following essay, Farr argues that Dorothy Canfield Fisher's stories set during World War I “deserve a close analysis within the framework of the feminist theories of militancy that have emerged in the last few decades.”

Dorothy Canfield, who had lived in France for periods as a child and spoke French fluently, returned to that country with her own small children during the Great War, where she worked with the war blind while her husband trained ambulance drivers. Her impressions of the conflict, written in the form of semi-autobiographic short stories, are collected in three volumes: Home Fires in France (1918), The Day of Glory (1919) and Raw Material (1923). Unlike two of her fellow countrywomen, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather...