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2 y separately published work icon The Mystery of the Clasped Hands Guy Boothby , London : George Newnes , Z799095 1901 single work novel mystery
1 1 y separately published work icon Josee : An Australian Story Mary Bradford Whiting , London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , 1920-1929 Z1583406 1920-1929 single work children's fiction children's

Pam Macintyre (q.v.), in an article in the La Trobe Journal, discusses Josee extensively:

'Whiting's novel Josee: an Australian Story (1890) opens with an evocative picture of working-class, pluralist Melbourne on market night, a Melbourne she never visited...'

Macintyre quotes the novel:

Saturday night is market night all the world over, and in Melbourne, no less than in London, the poorer parts of the town are filled with an eager crowd, buying, selling, shouting, gazing and bargaining. Long sheds of corrugated iron line a wide open space, where people thronged and gas burners flared.

The groups of men, women and children standing around the sheds, were as varied in their appearance as the goods displayed for sale. Irish women with shawls over their heads and tongues that never ceased chattering for a moment; bronzed and bearded bushmen come in from the surrounding districts to make purchases; city waifs and strays, ragged and unkempt as any London street arabs and yellow-faced Chinamen in petticoats and pigtails gliding silently among the throng. (Whiting, 1890: 6)

Later in the article, Macintyre continues: 'In Josee, one of the few novels which depict the working class as other than distasteful, sensationalised background, Duncan, a rough but kind-hearted bushman, is taken reluctantly through the back alleys of Melbourne by a little waif, "down one of the narrowest streets that lead away from the market-place ... [the door] gave access to an uninviting network of dark rooms and passage." (Whiting, 1890: 10) In the dimly lit room, the little girl's mother is dying. Widowed and unable to get a job because of ill-health, she is destitute. She begs Duncan to take the child and her only money - £5. Whiting, revealing attitudes not characteristic of the period, presents this picture of poverty without judging or moralising. The reader is invited to see the woman as a victim of circumstance. Josee avoids the judgemental and voyeuristic tone that often accompanies descriptions of poverty in novels of the period. However, once the reader turns the corner, leaving behind the dank, dim alleys, a different Melbourne is apparent in the 'wide streets, beautiful shops and great public buildings. (Whiting, 1890: 6)'

2 2 y separately published work icon Rung In Arthur Wright , 1911 single work novel 'A taste of the turf, interwoven with a murder mystery and a love story.' (Publisher's blurb The Cards of Fortune [1922])
1 2 y separately published work icon Songs and Verses Philip Durham Lorimer , London : William Clowes , 1901 Z164168 1901 selected work poetry Preface written by Philip Lorimer's sister, Charlotte Russell:

'This little volume has been printed for circulation among my brother Philip Lorimer's surviving relatives and old associates, who have expressed a desire to possess a memento of him.

The Songs and Verses have been selected from a mass of manuscript and printed cuttings mostly preserved by himself, and I have to thank Mr. E. A. Petherick for the interesting biographical sketch which he has compiled from private letters, newspaper paragraphs, and the recollection of Philip's friends.

C.R. LONDON, July, 1901'
1 y separately published work icon A Sailor's Bride Guy Boothby , London : F. V. White , 1899 Z799059 1899 single work novel adventure romance
2 y separately published work icon Adventures Ashore and Afloat 1865 selected work short story adventure children's
1 y separately published work icon Little Ben, The Shepherd : A Tale of Australian Life in the Present Day Octavius Frederic Timins , London : William Clowes , 1864 Z1447094 1864 single work children's fiction children's Relates the story of little Ben the shepherd who leaves England for Australia to work on a sheep and cattle property. He is accompanied by his sister Ann and another shepherd, James Hall. The story describes their experiences and life in early Australia. Much emphasis is made of their hard work which is repaid by their respective employers, and in particular, heroic acts performed by little Ben and James Hall during a flood are rewarded by their employer. This leads the way for Ann and James to be married. Ben is given permission to return to England to also be married and bring his wife back to the station at which he works. The couples are given their own huts on the station where they continue to work.
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