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ID
b19
Title
'Harvest'
Genre
Story
Page Count
8
Word Count
1650
Publisher
New Adelphi
Publication Year
1927
Topics
Motherhood

A pregnant mother of four, watching her children play, reflects on the child growing inside her.

In The New Adelphi (December 1927), Day's End and Other Stories (1928), Thirty Tales (1934), Love in a Wych Elm and Other Stories (2009). Reprinted in Also in Capajon: Fifty-four Short Stories (London: Cape, 1933, reprinted as Fifty-three Short Stories in 1937).