Volume 38, Number 8 · April 25, 1991

A Fine Romance

By Alison Lurie

Though The Bostonians is set in New England, it was written by someone who had already chosen to live abroad for nearly six years, and after the death of his parents in 1882 would not set foot in his native country again for twenty more.



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