- ID
- b5
- Title
- 'The Mother'
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 4
- Word Count
- 690
- Publisher
- Manchester Guardian
- Publication Year
- 1926
- Document Types
- Original Manuscript (mss)
- Topics
- Old Age, Motherhood
A brief depiction of an aged mother, whose life revolves entirely around her youngest son, unmarried and living at home in his thirties.
'He comes nearer. The warmth conquers her breast and throat. It assails her head. She is numb. She wonders dully why it is she can no longer see him.' One of four in Bates's first story collection that deals with the aged.
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 (August 17, 1926, p. 16, listed incorrectly in Eads as August 7, 1926), Day's End and Other Stories (1928), Thirty Tales (1934). Also in Capajon: Fifty-four Short Stories (London: Cape, 1933, reprinted as Fifty-three Short Stories in 1937).
