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- ID
- b136
- Title
- "Mr. Penfold."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 20
- Word Count
- 4670
- Publisher
- Harper's Magazine
- John O'London's Weekly
- Publication Year
- 1940
- Topics
- Motherhood, Loneliness, Daughters
A "painfully shy, retreating" traveling draper and haberdasher calls weekly, over a period of years, on a war-widow and her daughter, but is incapable of forming a romantic bond with either.
In Harper's Magazine (January 1940), John O'London's Weekly (January 19, 1940), The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories (1940), Thirty-One Selected Tales (1947), Selected Short Stories of H.E. Bates (1951), Selected Stories (1957), The Good Corn and Other Stories (1974).
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