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Better than Beauty single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1896... 1896 Better than Beauty
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English society romance set in England and France. A rich idle lord who loves beauty proposes to a beautiful but cold-hearted and unresponsive woman. As he comes to know her better he falls in love with her much less pretty but 'true-hearted, tender, sympathetic' poor cousin, Amy. A fever at St Lazare causes his fiancée and all her family but Amy to desert him - she nurses him through his illness and he marries her. Well-written, light. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 31 no. 377 October 1896 Z1053041 1896 periodical issue 1896 pg. 733-737
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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