The Brimming Cup

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.

[3] The novel was Fisher's most commercially successful novel.

Its positive setting of life in small town America[4](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.

[5][6][7] 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.

May 1921 advertisement for novel in Publishers Weekly .