Mrs. Farrell
a novel
by William Dean Howells
The background of Mrs. Farrell is the New England farm boarding house, which was the only form of simple country sojourn before summer cottages were imagined, and it is interesting to compare it with the farm boarding in The Vacation of the Kelwyns, written so many years after and giving a much fuller study of the country people. The farmhouse of this story, kept by the finer type of New England farmers, must, I think, have been the sort of summer place that my parents were always seeking, and the Kelwyns' experience a picture of what they more often found. In the latter book the country people are of much poorer stuff than the Woodwards, but one feels in his handling of them the greater tenderness and understanding that age teaches, and youth, no matter how sympathetic, cannot compass.--from the introduction
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Mrs. Farrell: a novel, with an introd. by Mildred Howells.
1921, Harper & Brothers Publishers
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BAL 9864
Gibson & Arms. Howells
"This story ... was first printed under the title of Private theatricals in the Atlantic monthly of 1875"--Introd.
Advertisements on p. [ii] and on p. [2]-[3] at end.
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