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ID
b14
Title
'The Baker's Wife'
Genre
Story
Page Count
17
Word Count
3760
Publisher
Humanist
Publication Year
1927
Topics
Marriage

A story of a woman, unhappily married, who encounters her former lover at a country fair.

In the evening they load the drunken husband into the wagon, and, angry at the 'meanness and pettiness of her existence,' she drives the horses wildly and dangerously.

In The Humanist (April 1927), Day's End and Other Stories (1928), Thirty Tales (1934).