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'The Devil's Own: An Australian Story’ is a history of a life of crime, and its consequences. The scenes and characters in the opening chapters of the story are placed in England, and afterwards transferred to Australia. It is replete with thrilling and sensational incidents, and a special interest is added by the realistic descriptions of early Australian life which are introduced. The authoress having spent so much of her own life in the Australian bush, is perfectly versed in all the details of a settlor’s experience. In addition to this, she possesses a vivid imagination, combined with an ability to place her thoughts and experiences before her renders in clear, pleasing and graphic language. The tale will thus possess a peculiar interest for Australians, being the work of one of themselves, and reproducing scenes which will recall to the minds of the older of our readers many of the incidents of their, early life in the colonies, and giving to the younger a much clearer idea than before of what life in Australia was in days gone by. ('Advertising', The Bendigo Independent, 26 September 1891, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169575693)
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