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Mrs Clinton single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 Mrs Clinton
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A woman travelling on a convict ship loses her husband and child to fever. She is assisted and comforted during her husband's illness by one of the convicts. In gratitude she assists him and several others to escape. When she jumps overboard shortly afterwards with her dead child in her arms they find her and take her on board their boat.

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