A review by ljrinaldi
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.0

I seem to be on a tear of reading books from the turn of the last century, and I was pleasantly surprised at how accessible this book still is. I learned, on completion, that the reason it seems to be so modern, even today, is that the author was an advocate for women's rights, and the Montessori system of teaching.

This is a jolly little story, in the words of the author, and you see how a child of what is now known as a helicopter parent, goes from having everything done to her, to learning how to do things for herself. Great fun as she figures these things out and thinks "what would cousin Ann do" to figure out how to handle the situations that life throws at her.