Mrs. Farrell

The background of Mrs. Farrell is the New England farm boarding house, which was the only form of simple country lodging at the time. During the later summers, while the author and his family still lived in Cambridge, they tried many different kinds of farm board. With the echoes of the Civil War in the air, this book is part personal recollection and part fiction about a boarding house, the people who stayed there, and the woman who ran it.