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Elizabeth Ann is being carefully raised by her Aunt Frances. Aunt Frances shares in all Elizabeth Ann's doubts and slights, walks her to and from college every day, and conscientiously employs the modern theories on child-rearing. She actually is the initial helicopter parent. And in addition, at nine yrs . old Elizabeth Ann is timid and shy, friendless, and completely dependent on her doting aunt. Then a crisis occurs, and the fearful litttle lady is temporarily delivered to other relatives who live on a farm in Vermont. When her uncle Henry nonchalantly hands her the buggy reins for the ride from the train station, the newly called Betsy realizes that that new family expects her to believe for herself. Dorothy Canfield Fisher was an early advocate of Maria Montessori's educational theory of learning by doing, and her heroine flourishes as she becomes aware of and interested in the planet around her and discovers how truly able she is.
