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1 Rough and Smooth James Lockhart , 1882 single work short story
1 The Whisper in the Cell James Lockhart , 1874 single work short story A child abandoned by his mother in the Tasmanian bush is adopted by the eccentric Snuffy Peg who raises him in Launceston with some care - despite occasional drunken lapses. Several years later he sees his 'mother' and follows her to the low den where she is staying. She agrees to return with him to Peg's where he discovers that he is Peg's grandson, and later recovers family diamonds secreted in Scotland by his grandfather before he was transported to Australia. (PB)
1 An Unpunished Crime James Lockhart , 1874 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 9 no. 109 1874; (p. 564-566) Two new chums arrive in Dunedin, NZ in December 1862 and soon make their way to the Molyneux River where they commence cradling for gold. The harsh treatment endured by the local store-keeper's wife attracts their attention, until one night she is pushed off a cliff-top into the river. Well-told with solid landscape descriptions. (PB)
1 y separately published work icon Razorridge James Lockhart , 1874 Z366733 1874 single work short story
1 A Night Scene in Melbourne James Lockhart , 1873 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 8 no. 97 1873; (p. 547-548) An encounter with a drunk on Bourke street leads the narrator to a wretched shanty where he meets a dying woman he had known before her marriage in New Zealand. Pictures the suffering of beaten wives and penniless women on city streets. (PB)
1 The Runaway Mother of Pinkievale James Lockhart , 1873 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 8 no. 96 1873; (p. 523-525) A woman in a decaying New Zealand gold town deserts her young son whom the narrator cares for until the child's death. Years later he meets the woman again in a shanty on the isolated Dunstan track. (PB)
1 The Castaway James Lockhart , 1873 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 8 no. 95 1873; (p. 413-417) Set in Melbourne and on the diggings at Reedy Marsh in Tasmania - two encounters with a suicidal drunkard, the last preceded by a terrible dream. (PB)
1 The Escape James Lockhart , 1873 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , February vol. 8 no. 93 1873; (p. 304-308) Maggie Dysart leaves her little Scots village to emigrate to Australia. She spies a sailor adrift on the sea, he is saved and they fall in love. On landing [in Melbourne] she takes a job as a domestic servant to an up-country station owner, an evil-intentioned escaped convict with one mad-woman in his hovel already. Interesting depiction of female immigrants, "Jenny Grants" and their treatment and for the grotesquerie of the convict's mad-woman. (PB)
1 The Convict's Wife James Lockhart , 1873 single work short story On the Gippsland peninsula two convicts find a haven to recover from their escape. A beautiful woman on horseback crosses their path - Paul Somerville rescuing her from the evil intentions of his companion. Paul is given a place on her father's station as a reward. They fall in love but have to flee her father's anger when they are discovered. From Melbourne they go to Bendigo to make their fortune. (PB)
1 A Woman's Revenge James Lockhart , 1873 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , November vol. 9 no. 102 1873; (p. 142-145) Two gold-diggers, mates for six years, part on Christmas Day - one to try his luck one last time on the diggings and one to seek employment on a station. The latter finds a station where the owner's wife turns out to be his own wife who had deserted him five years before. A murder and a suicide follow ... Interesting in parts. Lockhart is improving slowly. (PB)
1 The Twins of the Bush James Lockhart , 1872 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 8 no. 89 1872; (p. 57-60) The capture of two hardened thieves and murderers on the Victorian diggings. Set in Wangaratta and Reedy Creek in 'the year of the Ovens rush.' (PB)
1 A Common Tale James Lockhart , 1872 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 8 no. 88 1872; (p. 1-7) Set on the way to the Otago goldfields. A shanty-keeper rapes his bar-maid who is the beloved of a gold-digger. She runs off with her employer to Otago, taking the digger's gold, but though visibly a fallen woman - she arranges for the digger to avenge her honour. Rough tale and interesting. (PB)
1 Jack Fortune James Lockhart , 1872 single work short story adventure Jack is born in Wales and at an early age leaves his widowed mother to work as a farmhand. After rough treatment and witnessing his master's murder by his mistress, Jack resolves to go to London. He falls in with a tramp before reaching the city. The poverty he experiences there persuades him to stowaway on a ship where the cruelty of the captain and mate cause a mutiny. The crew lands in New Zealand, scuttles the vessel and they split up; Jack with two others finds his way to a sheep station and later to the Otago goldfields via Dunedin. He eventually returns to Wales and mother. (PB)
1 The Man Otter James Lockhart , 1872 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 7 no. 83 1872; (p. 450-452) The story of a strange monster living in a crater lake on Ben Lomond, Tasmania. A gold miner accompanies an ex-convict to the lake to which, around 1840, the convict and a fellow escapee had fled - and where the companion had been killed by the monster. (PB)
1 The New Chum James Lockhart , 1872 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 7 no. 82 1872; (p. 400-401) The experiences of a young man fresh from England seeking to try his luck on the New Zealand diggings in 1863. Set near Nelson. (PB)
1 California Jim's Queer Story James Lockhart , 1872 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , January vol. 7 no. 80 1872; (p. 287-290) Set in New Zealand on the diggings, a story of a small savage tribe in a hidden valley near Lake Wanaka and a Scotsman who lived with them - accidentally discovered by California Jim on a journey in the area. (PB)
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