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    y separately published work icon Handfasted Catherine Helen Spence , Ringwood : Penguin , 1984 Z459963 1879 single work novel science fiction

    'Deals with a group of long-lost Scottish adventurers whose self-contained community, Columba, has been isolated from the wider world in a remote valley since 1745, allowing them to develop a radically alternative society [...] The chief distinguishing feature of Columba is its fostering of the practice of handfasting, a custom allowing trial marriages of a year and a day.'

    Source: Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction.

         Ringwood : Penguin , 1984     pg. vii-ix
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