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Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 Fred Leicester, or, The Southern Cross and Charles's Wain
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The first story,'Fred Leicester; or, The Southern Cross and Charles Wain' is described as follows: 'Fred, a young Englishman, acquires 'colonial experience', finds a fortune on the diggings, and returns with it to England to marry 'his Helen'. (The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature ed. Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre (1993): 371).

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    y separately published work icon Fred Leicester, or, The Southern Cross and Charles's Wain, and Other Stories Richard Rowe , Edinburgh : Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell , 1889 Z1436546 1889 selected work children's fiction children's Includes two stories with no Australian themes or settings: 'John Bulb, the Barber' and '"Dark Dennis" and his Grandson'. The first story,'Fred Leicester; or, The Southern Cross and Charles Wain' is described as follows: 'Fred, a young Englishman, acquires 'colonial experience', finds a fortune on the diggings, and returns with it to England to marry 'his Helen'. (The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature ed. Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre (1993): 371). Edinburgh : Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell , 1889 pg. 7-62
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Fred Leicester, or, The Southern Cross and Charles's Wain, and Other Stories Richard Rowe , Edinburgh : Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell , 1889 Z1436546 1889 selected work children's fiction children's Includes two stories with no Australian themes or settings: 'John Bulb, the Barber' and '"Dark Dennis" and his Grandson'. The first story,'Fred Leicester; or, The Southern Cross and Charles Wain' is described as follows: 'Fred, a young Englishman, acquires 'colonial experience', finds a fortune on the diggings, and returns with it to England to marry 'his Helen'. (The Oxford Companion to Australian Children's Literature ed. Stella Lees and Pam Macintyre (1993): 371). London : Sampson Low, Marston , 1925 pg. 7-62
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