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Footnote to the Beacon Hill Garden Tour I had difficulty finding the author of the novel , "Joy St." an authentic Beacon Hill St. Finally found it, on amazon.com, and am surpised that it was Frances Parkinson Keyes, set in Boston, spanning the years, 1936-1946, about the fictional life of Emily Thacher Field, born into the Forbes family, "one of the bluest of the blue blood Boston families " The heroine, "Emily," broke all the staid unwritten Beacon Hill rules, inviting socially unacceptable people to dinners, parties, lectures, academic settings, living quarters.
(I'd thought "Joy St." had been written in the mid-1800's, by Louisa May Alcott, not a whole century later, which it WASN'T, although the 2 women authors, Alcott and Keyes, had much in common, trying to break thru the barriers in place during their lives, for women authors, writers. The book story line touches on themes, also found in the Novel, later a Pulitzer Prize winning play, "The Late George Apley" by J.P. Marquand, describing political powers in Boston, dramatically unravelling, transferring, with the arrival of massive immigrant populations, from the late 1800's to mid !900's. George's story is set down off Beacon Hill, along Commonwealth Ave. Both interesting reads.)