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Author
Pub. Date
1941.
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Description
Mrs. Miniver, Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, Aunt Elsa, are now joined by Mrs. (and Mr.) Appleyard of Boston, younger than Aunt Elsa, older and mellower than Mrs. Miniver and the Cugate. Mother of grown children, who are not too respectful but casually devoted, whom she loves for their faults rather than their virtues, wife of a loyal but fierily opinionated husband, Mrs. Appleyard is impish about expected things, unexpected, and sturdily, individually Bostonian....
Author
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
The novel is set in the Boston area in the early 1950s. After she suffers a heart attack, Mrs. Appleyard, an elderly New England widow, is persuaded to rent out part of her historic house to young married couples as a way of not being all alone. This brings her into contact with a whole new slice of society, that of young Harvard researchers and their working wives. Some of them are delightful, and others shock her by their ill manners, poor childrearing...