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1 The Christmas Reef James Crozier , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Tom Morison's Golden Christmas and Other Lost Australian Goldmining Stories 2019;
1 The Bankrupt's Daughter James Crozier , 1898 single work novella adventure In Melbourne two cousins witness a woman throw herself into the sea; the male cousin jumps in and saves her. She is from Ballarat and had eloped, but her lover did not marry her. She is ashamed of her action and does not want her family to know. The cousins welcome her into their family. Later it is revealed that his father and her father are the same person. He had deserted the family because his first wife was a termagent; he married another woman and raised another family. Subplot on racing fixing.
1 Overheard at the Pioneers' Picnic James Crozier , 1898 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 33 no. 401 1898; (p. 630-631) Reminiscence by an old pioneer of his early days in Australia on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, around Forest Creek/Castlemaine. The Gloucestershire immigrant with his friend falls in love with an Irish girl on the trip out; they work together prospecting to find enough gold to marry; the narrator kills a Chinese gold robber by accident, flees to Melbourne and marries his girl. Money bribes the Chinese and several years later he sees the supposed dead man in Castlemaine. Anti-Chinese sentiments very strong. Includes passing references to his wife's loyalty; woman's selfishness; and the superiority of men's friendship. (PB)
1 Memories of Other Days : The Shoemaker James Crozier , 1898 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 33 no. 400 1898; (p. 572) Narrative of the schoolboy narrator's meeting over stolen fruit with the well-educated and sterling character of the local shoemaker. Includes a sketch of the man's character, and a tale of his unrequited passion for the daughter of a loud-voiced merchant. He saved her from a fire but never touched her again - marrying a common woman. (PB)
1 A Slight Mistake James Crozier , 1898 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 33 no. 394 1898; (p. 218) The narrator tells his recently returned friend of his narrow escape the year before when - in the darkness of a seance - he proposed to substantial mother instead of her daughter. Bachelor tale. (PB)
1 The Cave Mystery James Crozier , 1897 single work short story romance Walter Hinton, a handsome superficial Victorian, is murdered by a stiletto in the darkness of Tasmania's Chudleigh Caves, even as he grasps the hand of the beautiful Mary to assist her across the stream. The youthful touring party is ruined, and Hinton Mary and the inquest magistrate and two friends Tom Hurston and Bert Sharp believe a friend of theirs to be innocent. Meanwhile detectives assist to prove the young accused's innocence, and suspicions fall on a foreign actress 'The Corinna' at the Princess Theatre. Hinton had been involved - and then deserted - a foreign woman. The actress is sister to the seduced woman whose husband had been killed by Hinton in a duel in Paris. Her Corsican vow of revenge is spurred on by an old Corsican servant in Melbourne - but he wrongly identifies Tom Hurston as her sister's betrayer. He and Cora (La Corinna) are falling in love, Cora and Mary become friends. Detective Friars investigates in Tasmania finding new evidence from a shearer and cave guide leading to a denoument in Deloraine. (PB)
1 Won and Worn James Crozier , 1896 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 31 no. 372 1896; (p. 437-439) Victorian station romance with a city ending. A young tutor on a country station falls in love with his employer's daughter and reveals his feelings when she rides down the steep side of a volcanic crater to rescue him after a fall. His honesty and noble view of her eventually win her heart and he goes out to fight for his laurels in the Melbourne courts as a lawyer. Weak for Crozier - high-flown and overdone. (PB)
1 The Old Fusee James Crozier , 1896 single work short story adventure
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , January vol. 31 no. 368 1896; (p. 198-200) Australian station romance and adventure includes kidnapping and gold. Lightly self-mocking reminiscence of a Victorian youth's first love for a Melbourne judge's daughter visiting the station. Focus of tale is really on his tree climb to find his position when lost; his capture and deposit in a cave by a band of illicit alcohol brewers; his attempt to escape from the old mine during which he strikes gold; his consequent increase in income and loss of first love. Happy tone gently laughing at youth's follies - includes short bursts of praise for Australia and Victoria; nationalism. (PB)
1 Jack Whitby, Or, the Australian Communist. A Story of Reconciliation James Crozier , 1895-1896 single work novella Adventure during the War of the Commune fighters and the Germans. English newspaper correspondent Jack Whitby encounters an Australian girl Emily Stanton and her sick father, and a brave strong Australian George Weston fighting for the Commune-ists under a false name. He tends Weston's wounds and helps both parties escape through the lines. Scenes of battles, Paris under fire, etc. In London he continues to meet the Stantons and falls in love with Emily's sister Carrie and confirms that enmity exists between Emily and Weston. Weston conducts some investigations towards clearing his name of a mysterious murder and returns to Melbourne accompanied by a French soldier, his companion in the Communists. Emily's hatred of Weston stems from believing he killed her brother and had their child kidnapped, as she is his wife. Her ambitious father and brother get involved. Jack Whitby appears in Melbourne researching a story on poverty, accompanied by the Stanton sisters, Carrie and Emily. Weston and Emily's missing daughter Gertie has been claimed by a bushranger, Wilkins, who is actually the Stanton's sisters' brother, whom they thought dead. All ends well, with themes of social improvement through reduction of poverty, and the role of trade unions. (PB)
1 Tiger Bill's Christmas Feed James Crozier , 1895 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , December vol. 31 no. 367 1895; (p. 127-128) Boy's friendhsip. A street urchin in Melbourne champions a small boy against a bully and friendship grows, the boy often sharing his food with his hungry ragged companion. At Christmas the urchin steals some food for a feast but his friend tells the tale of Jesus and awakens his conscience ... Very strong characterisation of the urchin, at least early on when the narrator described him affectionately 'nothing human [is] foreign to myself', but weakens with the introduction of the boy's deferral to the refinement of his new friend - and becomes sentimental with the subject of Jesus. (PB)
1 Smith's Dam James Crozier , 1895 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 31 no. 365 1895; (p. 51-53) A Melbourne society woman, her family's fortunes ruined in a bank crash, becomes a teacher at a small unclassified country school. She is much admired by the local young men but feels superior though attracted to one of them. The breaking of a new dam, the swift departure of a bejewelled city suitor and the courage of a country admirer in saving first her and then the city suitor wins her love. Romance is declared on the mullock heap to which she is carried by her hero - and gold is also discovered. Well written, humorous - light irony; well-studied references interwoven. (PB)
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