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Issue Details:
First known date:
1873...
vol.
8
no.
93
February
1873
of
The Australian Journal
est. 1865
The Australian Journal
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* Contents derived from the 1873 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Wife and Mistress,
single work
short story
(p. 293-294)A strong, beautiful and respectable woman, Barbara Walsh, marries a scapegrace Englishman sent to the island's civil service to avert his marriage to a farmer's daughter, Lucy Cleeve, seduced in England. When Lucy appears in Tasmania the liaison resumes until the wife murders Lucy and castrates her husband. [A footnote coyly refers to a similar incident in England.] (PB)
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Married Bachelors,
single work
prose
(p. 302)Description of the unfitness for marriage of some men - and how the needs of their old age may draw them close to their long despised wives. (PB)
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Tom's Story,
single work
short story
(p. 303)Romance set in a Damascus bazaar between a young Englishman and a veiled beauty - a Caliph's wife. A tragic ending resolves itself into a dream ... (PB)
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The Escape,
single work
short story
(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)
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The Schoolmaster Turned Editor,
single work
short story
(p. 314-315)Euripides Bimble, a New Hampshire school teacher, is tempted West to be editor of "The Scalpers' Bluff Bulletin". Encounters wih local political and literary aspirants convince him to return home. (PB)
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The Northern Territory - Port Darwin,
single work
prose
travel
(p. 336)Written on October 20th, the letter describes the boat from Victoria arriving in Darwin, the duties levied on their supplies, local prospects for gold, and the character of the inhabitants, climate etc. Brief. (PB)
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The Outcasts Return : A Tale of South Australia,
single work
short story
(p. 337-340)A stranger returns to the godless drunken bush settlement of Forgong and thence to Kallone station where a marriage was to take place. This self-exiled older brother who seduced and left to die a foster-sister before, brings violence and tragedy with him again. (PB)
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Out of the Sunshine,
single work
short story
(p. 341)A child's near-death teaches his father the importance of laughter. Family moral. (PB)
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Our First Nurse,
single work
prose
(p. 342-343)On the interferences introduced by a baby's nurse into the relations of the young married narrator and her husband - and the solution arrived at. (PB)
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Small Mercies,
single work
prose
(p. 345)On the general reluctance to take trouble in little things. (PB)
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'Sayings' from Adam Bede,
single work
prose
(p. 345)
On the degree of responsibility that can - or can not - be appointed for unforeseen consequences of a deed - particularly in the private sphere. (PB) Refers to Adam Bede by English novelist George Eliot.
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Advice to European Travellers,
single work
prose
(p. 349)Punning advice on the Greasy Isles. Comic intent. (PB)
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