AustLit

Kate Engrove, recently arrived in Victoria, is in love with the handsome Augustus Clerson and not with her farming, good-looking cousin, Henry Treshaw. A fire and the theft of a ruby heirloom are solved by some quick deterctive work ... (PB)

Julia and Kate Cameron make new ball gowns from old muslin dyed, win their brother his army building contract and Kate wins the General for herself. Bright slight romance, probably US. (PB)

On human wants, their satisfaction and their discipline. (PB)

Satirical dispraise of poems written by young women disappointed in love - and disbelief in their sincerity. (PB)

On the meaning of 'good blood', family honour etc, especially in a new country. (PB)

The son and daughter of a German migrant to Australia are orphaned by a fire in their father's warehouse which also cripples the son. The daughter resolves to nurse her brother and renounces her fiancee who returns to Germany - only to have her brother marry after several years ... Interesting for German subjects, but story and execution very commonplace. (PB)

A poor bitter old woman kills the daughter who returns to look after her, discovering her identity too late. (PB)

A beautiful girl, schoolmate and inspiration of a poor boy's life, meets and marries her lover. The boy grows up to be a great preacher but disappointed in his love for her is killed by 'savages' in his missionary role. Sentimental. (PB)

A maiden aunt's pretended loss of fortune saves her niece from a fortune-hunter and exposes the true lover. (PB)

On the powers of imagination and the "Outline Illustrations to Shakespeare" to create a theatre at home. Especially, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Tempest ... (PB)

A washerwoman's son rises to wealth in the USA through his own and his mother's industry, a lawsuit and an inheritance. He claims his fortune and his employer's daughter in one action. (PB)

An army officer returns to London from India to claim his child from the nurse who had cared for him since his wife died in childbirth. He discovers a dirty street urchin ... (PB)

Tale of the Featherstonehaugh family who had once been wealthy but were no longer; of their struggle and happiness as a family, of a wealthy masquerade ball, a stroke of lightning and a marriage. Innocently charming in a quiet way. (PB)

A scar on Carrie Wilson's face has left her unmarried at 22 while her pretty sister Ellie is much admired. Ellie's skating assignation with Granville Ferguson is interrupted by his arrest for forgery, but it leaves Herbert Brandon the opportunity he has been seeking. (PB)

A rich old man fears to lose the love of his nephew when he marries but falls ill and discovers his nurse to be nephew's fiancée. (PB)

An American girl meets her fiancée in Italy, and discovers that her temporary maid Fenella has married a nobleman. Five years later the American couple return to the villa to find that Fenella is dead ... but her ghost returns. (PB)

Overhearing her new and unpleasant stepmother's plan to wed her to her brother, Cara determines to be unpleasant to him. But his early arrival undermines her plans. Simple romance. (PB)

On the value of this quality. (PB)