The Brimming Cup Explained

The Brimming Cup is a novel by Dorothy Canfield Fisher that was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1921.

The novel was first serialized in McCall's from October 1920 through March 1921^{[1] [2]} and then published in book form on March 10, 1921.(7 May 1921). Advertisement, Publishers Weekly, p. 1

The novel was Fisher's most commercially successful novel. Its positive setting of life in small town America^[3] (Ashley, Vermont) was marketed as a contrast to the successful Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis, which the best selling novel in the United States in 1921, just ahead of Fisher.^{[4] [5]} (13 August 1921). An Antidote to 'Main Street', The Literary Digest, p. 24

A passage of the novel discusses unfair treatment of blacks in Georgia, and has been called "the first modern best-seller to present criticism of racial prejudice."^[6]

External links

• The Brimming Cup (1921) at Project Gutenburg
• The Brimmming Cup (1921) on Google Books

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/sim_rosie_1920-10_48_1/page/n3/mode/2up The Brimming Cup
2. https://archive.org/details/sim_rosie_1921-03_48_6/page/n35/mode/2up The Brimming Cup
3. (28 May 1921). Novels to Take Along, Publishers Weekly, p. 1609
4. Madigan, Mark, ed., Seasoned Timber(introductory note to 1996 edition of this novel)
5. Pedersen, Nate. 1921 Bestsellers: A Conversation with Linda Aragoni, Fine Books & Collections (December 2021)
6. Stout, Janis P. Writing Politically: Dorothy Canfield and the "Wrongness of the World", Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Summer 2014), pp. 251-275