Halifax, England is mentioned one time in Jean Rhys' Voyage in the Dark as her character explains, "But instead I started counting all the towns I had been to, the first winter I was on tour -- Wigan, Blackburn, Bury, Oldham, Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Southport." She goes on to describe how all of these locaitons are painfully similar, leaving the audience with the impression that the narrator is not at all impressed with the English countryside.

    
Halifax in the 1930s                                                                                      Modern-day Halifax

Halifax is an important market town of the Calderdale borough, but operated as a mill town during the industrial revolution. During the 1930s, when Voyage in the Dark was published, Halifax was best known for a scare regarding a serial killer known as the Halifax Slasher.