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A Fatal Furniture Sale single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1876... 1876 A Fatal Furniture Sale
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Set at Easdale near Grasmere, Westmoreland. The tale of children orphaned when their parents died in the mountains returning from a furniture sale. Wordsworth is briefly mentioned. (PB)

Notes

  • Tale by De Quincey with preface as published in the Furniture Gazette

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 11 no. 131 April 1876 Z1086312 1876 periodical issue 1876 pg. 422-423
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