Tag: Her Son’s Wife
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Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958) published ‘Her Son’s Wife’ in 1926. It is set in Gilmanville, a fictional place in small-town America, between 1908 and 1925. The ‘her’ in question is Mary Bascombe, a middle-aged widow. Though a determined, highly capable teacher and mother, she seems incapable of understanding or forgiving weakness in others. Her son, Ralph,…

