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Odour of Chrysanthemums
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Odour of Chrysanthemums is a short story by D. H. Lawrence. It was written in the autumn of 1909 and, after revision, was published in the English Review in July 1911. Lawrence later included this tale in his collection of short stories entitled The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, which Duckworth, his London publisher, brought out on 26th November 1914. An American edition was produced by B W Huebsch in 1916.
The story tells of a Nottinghamshire coalminer's wife, a young mother, waiting for her abusive husband to come home. She blames his drinking for his absence. It later turns out he has been killed in a pit accident. Laying out his corpse, after it is brought home from the mine, makes her realise they never really knew each other.
- The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (1914), edited by John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-521-24822-1
