Annie Fields, wife of the publisher James T. Fields, kept a famous literary house on Charles Street in Boston. Drawing on her journals, M. A. DeWolfe Howe shows her guests and friends: Dr. Holmes next door, visitors from Concord and Cambridge, Dickens on his American reading tour, actors and singers, and her long companionship with Sarah Orne Jewett.
An intimate window on literary Boston at its height, for readers of nineteenth-century American letters. Download the free EPUB.