Mrs. Bathurst | Summary

‘‘Mrs. Bathurst’’ takes place in Glengariff, South Africa, in the years following the Boer War (1899– 1902). The main story is told through a conversation between three men and the narrator; the four men discuss the tragic tale of Mrs. Bathurst, a hotel owner in New Zealand, and her lover, Mr. Vickery (also known as ‘‘Click’’). The preface to the story is an excerpt from a mock-Jacobean tragedy written by Kipling entitled Lyden’s ‘‘Irenius’’ that narrates a dialogue between a prince and one of his subjects.

The themes of the epigraph—disinterested...

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