Melanie Stultz-Backus: Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s imperfect pitch

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Melanie Stultz-Backus, a retired high school teacher who was born in Burlington and lives in Bristol.
Among Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s many accomplishments was her fluency in five languages, yet she might have heeded the reflections of her reputed namesake from George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” Dorothea Brooke: “I don’t feel sure about doing good in any way now: everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose la