AustLit

On a ride through the New Forest in England and the ghostlike companion encountered on the way to visit friends. All is a dream. (PB)

Romance begins over a sewing machine demonstrated by Rosamond Gifford in an exhibition. From earning her own living she becomes the means of uniting her mother's lost expectations with her cousin's inheritance. (PB)

How a Baptist mother adjusts when her son marries an actress, and how when he falls ill she even goes to the theatre. (PB)

John Watson from Devon seeks fortune for his family and his betrothed on the Victorian diggings, but ill luck follows him. In his hour of greatest need, recovering from a bout of drinking, an Aboriginal family shows him the quartz reef full of gold. (PB)

Arthur Gascoigne, forced to sell his commission in the British army, comes to Australia to try his fortune while waiting for some rich relatives to provide for him. Once in the Port Phillip district he plays with the affections of two eligible squatters' daughters, eventually marrying one after persuading her to elope with him. The disruption to life on the two stations, including the servants, comprises most of the tale. (PB)

The brutal murder of a farmer's son by the shambling farm labourer, and the grief it brings to his family. Set in up-country Victoria. (PB)

On a visit to an employment office and the generally intractable and 'unsuitable' applicants for domestic service there. (PB)

On the murder of wives through cruel words, neglect and overwork. (PB)

Light generally humorous account of a voyage to New Zealand, the sleeping arrangements aboard ship and the fellow travellers. (PB)

On the variety and attractions of clock-faces. (PB)

On the affinity of sense and sound in some words of the English language. (PB)

Of the death-bed confession of a man outcast from society who took the blame of another man's crime so that the woman they both loved should be happy. [Probably set in the US.] (PB)