Mrs. Fisher is now one of five members of the State School Board for Vermont, the first woman to be on the State Board of Education in Vermont. This is in line with her ablest work, which has been in training children and adolescents.
_Corneille and Racine in England_, 1904. _English Rhetoric and Composition (with Professor G. R. Carpenter)_, 1906. _What Shall We Do Now?_ 1906. _Gunhild_, 1907. _The Squirrel-Cage_, 1912. _A Montessori Mother_, 1913. _Mothers and Children_, 1914. _The Bent Twig_, 1915. _Hillsboro People_, 1916. _The Real Motive_, 1917. _Understood Betsy_, 1917. _Home Fires in France_, 1918. _The Day of Glory_, 1919. _The Brimming Cup_, 1921. _Rough-Hewn_, 1922.
_First thirteen published by Henry Holt & Company, New York; others by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York._
On March 17, 1918, the author of this book had the pleasure, as editor of _Books and the Book World_ of _The Sun_, New York, of printing what is certainly the best account extant of Amelia E. Barr within a reasonable length. Although the article was unsigned it was the work of Mr. A. Elwood Corning, who had been a neighbor of Mrs. Barr at Richmond Hill, Long Island, New York. It was based upon a personal visit and interview. This chapter is really nothing more than a reprint of Mr. Corning’s article with a few changes, particularly those necessitated by Mrs. Barr’s death on March 10, 1919, at her Richmond Hill home. To Mr. Corning, then, the credit of this chapter.
Amelia E. Barr struck the popular taste more than thirty years ago with her _Bow of Orange Ribbon_. She was one of the most prolific of present-day writers of fiction. Her last completed novel, _The Paper Cap_, published in the fall of 1918, brought the number of her books up to over seventy, and this does not include hundreds of short stories, a poem a week for _fourteen years_, written for Bonner’s _Ledger_, or the numerous newspaper articles, essays and verses of the first fourteen years of her literary life.
On March 29, 1918, Mrs. Barr entered her eighty-eighth year. In the preceding twelve months she had published three books, and shortly before her eighty-seventh birthday (or the birthday which made her eighty-seven years old!) she completed a fourth in manuscript! This was _The Paper Cap_, the scenes of which are laid in Yorkshire, England, where the novelist spent a part of her childhood. Mrs. Barr thought it one of the best stories she had written. The paper cap of the title is that of the workingman and the story centers around his fight for the suffrage. It was really a contest between the hand loom and the power loom.