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Lionel S. Lionel S. i(A78818 works by) (a.k.a. Lionel)
Writing name for: Lionel Sparrow
Gender: Male
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1 Pearl Lionel S. , 1898 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 33 no. 396 1898; (p. 355-357) Captain Everleigh comes to visit a friend at his father's station and rescues his host's sister from a runaway horse. They fall in love but his proposal scares her young heart - and it is four years before he learns she has not married another and they meet again. Romance and marriage follow. Opening description of a huge forest being diminished by ring-barking. (PB)
1 Predestined Lionel S. , 1898 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , January vol. 33 no. 392 1898; (p. 107-110) Station romance set in Gippsland. Ronald Winter, Rugby-educated station manager and his brother Harry work on a station in time of drought. Ronald loves the owner's daughter Olive. He finds and saves her from a runaway horse in treacherous swampland but she is very ill with mental shock etc. He rides through a bushfire to fetch the doctor for her - but dies as he attempts to return the same way. Olive dies at the same moment, his name on her lips. Ronald dies in Harry's arms. Themes of true bravery, self-sacrifice for love, a doctor's understanding through recent loss of his own wife and child. (PB)
1 The Jewelled Hand Lionel S. , 1887 single work short story horror
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , August vol. 22 no. 267 1887; (p. 658-660) Australian Gothic : An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction, 1867-1939 2007; (p. 217-229) Horror tale with a Spanish flavour. The narrator reveals his increasing obsession with decapitation and whether or not will remains in the mind after severence. This leads to the murder of his closest friend, a man of great mind and will power. Well-paced and structured, slight melodrama in the increasing sense of obsession. (PB)
1 The Masterpiece of Gerald Wayne Lionel S. , 1887 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 22 no. 264 1887; (p. 492-494) Four men, two brothers, their cousin and the narrator share owndership of a Victorian station in 1865. The narrator brings his mother and sister out from England to join him and all three relatives fall in love with her. She agrees to marry Frank Wayne but some time later he is drowned. Only a somnambulistically completed painting by the artist cousin, Gerald, reveals that it was fratricide ... Well-written but not exceptional. (PB)
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