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ID
b23
Title
'The Voyage'
Genre
Story
Page Count
9
Word Count
1840
Publisher
Bermondsey Book
Publication Year
1928
Topics
Marriage, Old Age

On board a boat, a woman reflects on her husband's illness and anticipates his death.

As they disembark she is filled with tenderness and strength, and 'her eyes, amazingly young and bright, seemed full of courage, of the determination of her dreams, the fearlessness of her deep resolves.'

In The Bermondsey Book (March-May 1928), Day’s End and Other Stories (1928), Thirty Tales (1934). Reprinted in A Century of Sea Stories (1935).