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- ID
- b3
- Title
- 'The Lesson'
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 6
- Word Count
- 1210
- Publisher
- Manchester Guardian
- Publication Year
- 1926
- Document Types
- Original Manuscript (mss)
- Topics
- Education, Music, Unrequited Love
A music teacher is unable to focus on her students, having just received a rejection letter from her betrothed.
Letting go of her dreams and resigned to a lifetime of teaching, she returns to the classroom, instructing "Higher! Open your mouths. You must have freedom! More freedom! Freedom!" In its theme, the story bears some similarity to another early story, 'The Flame'.
A manuscript is held in the collection of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, USA. (https://archives.iu.edu/catalog/InU-Li-VAD6063)
In the Manchester Guardian (June 1, 1926), Day's End and Other Stories (1928).
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