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Mrs. Farrell by William Dean Howells explores widows — fiction, man-woman relationships — fiction, boardinghouses — fiction.
From the opening pages: “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…”
