When the youngest of her three children begins school, Marise Crittenden begins to reevaluate her marriage and the values on which her life has been based

The Brimming Cup (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Canfield, Dorothy

Literary

Penguin??Books

SEASONED TIMBER

Harcourt, Brace & Co.

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The Bent Twig

Kessinger Publishing

Rough-Hewn

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Classics

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

The Bent Twig (Large Print Edition)

BiblioLife

Hillsboro People (Large Print Edition)

Poetry

Unlike other young women of her generation, who were “bred up from childhood to sit behind tea-tables and say the right things to tea-drinkers,” Sylvia Marshall—the “twig” of this novel—was reared to think for herself and to trust her own instincts and experience. This, coupled with her passionate temperament, makes Sylvia a compelling figure as she resists efforts to mold her with every rebellious fiber of her independent nature. Sylvia's home is a Montessori home, where everyone takes part in household tasks, and the children learn by being included in adult activities. Without making a show of being different, her father, a popular professor at the Midwest state university in La Chance, lives the life of the mind in a rambling farmhouse instead of on a faculty row among his upwardly mobile colleagues; her mother's wardrobe is more suited to canning tomatoes than to impressing sophisticated “town set.” Although Sylvia adapts outwardly to her parents' values, inwardly she suffers because of her family's difference from both town and university standards. A dazzling occasional presence in her life is the flamboyant Aunt Victoria, who keeps a mansion in Lydford, Vermont, and an apartment in Paris. Sylvia responds to such luxury, and her attempts to evade moral questions concerning the distribution of wealth lend a human aspect to a social dilemma. First published in 1915, The Bent Twig is the first of Dorothy Canfield's novels to give fictional form to the Montessori method and to reflect the insights into education and human development that she gained in Rome while visiting Maria Montessori. The novel's concerns with gender roles, race relations, substance abuse, the environment, and the welfare of children remain contemporary and still speak to us across the years.

The Bent Twig: A Novel

Children's Books

Ohio University Press

Hillsboro People

United States

Legare Street Press

The Day of Glory

History

World

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