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1 My First Situation Niente , 1890 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 26 no. 304 1890; (p. 40-42) Anglo-Australian romance of a Girton girl and a handsome young squatter. Driven by family necessity to give up her medical studies after her father's death, Joan Forbes takes a well-paid position as governess in Australia. She is directed at first to the wrong station on the NSW-Victorian border but sets the "boss's" broken arm and is quickly restored to her rightful destination, the neighbouring property. Despite her lack of cooking skills several months later she is engaged to the neighbouring squatter, her employer's brother. Entertaining story, well-written, topical subjects, heroine who slightly challenges traditional role expectations; nice vignettes of colonial Australia. (This author, 'Niente', slowly improving.) (PB)
1 Incognito Niente , 1890 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 25 no. 302 1890; (p. 589-592) Familiar tale pleasantly executed. Two English cousins left a house and fortune on the condition that they marry, meet and fall in love without knowing the other's identity; he is disguised as a doctor, she as a housemaid in a small country village. (PB)
1 The Great O'Grady Niente , 1889 single work short story romance Pleasant lively romance. An eager Irish-Jewish clerk in a London solicitor's firm introduces his employer to a beautiful but poor young lady who the latter befriended falls in love with. They are separated for a time when it is discovered she is the niece of a rich and titled lady - but true love and the clerk's perseverance with the help of a match-making gentlewoman eventually unites the lovers - despite a titled suitor and their class differences. (PB)
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