King Cole King Cole i(A66899 works by)
Writing name for: Robert Beilby
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1 Better Rub Than Rust King Cole , 1881 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , February vol. 16 no. 189 1881; (p. 313-317) An honest youth resolves to take up manual labour rather than rust with his status-proud mother and sister in Melbourne after his father dies. He takes a job at a farm near Lilydale and quickly gains promotion and the love of his manager's daughter. She will not marry him until the mystery shrouding her father's name is cleared ... Subject and locale more interesting than style. Mystery is the usual false imputation of murder in Ireland in the manager's youth. (PB)
1 Pure as a Lily King Cole , 1880 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 15 no. 178 1880; (p. 375-378) Romance of Sydney and Melbourne. Alice Mervyn is called away from her Sydney girls' school to see her dying father in Melbourne. She arrives too late and flees her step-mother's plot to marry her to an unscrupulous friend. She falls in love with and marries one of her rescuers, eventually winning his wealthy squatters father's approval. Slight. (PB).
1 All For Love King Cole , 1879 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 14 no. 167 1879; (p. 396-397) Set in Scarborough, Yorkshire and the Queensland outback. Lovers parted by a rival's plot are reunited through his rescue and recovery from an Aboriginal spearing. (PB)
1 Good for Evil King Cole , 1879 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , December vol. 15 no. 175 1879; (p. 203-205) Sketchy unlikely romance of a poor English miner/farmer in Victoria who - urged by his daughter - saves the life of the man who cheated him in England. The man returns the money and they all sail for England, the two young people falling in love, and the father drowning in the shipwreck from which the daughter is saved. (PB)
1 Wattle Blossoms King Cole , 1879 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 15 no. 172 1879; (p. 35-37) A widower's intrigues separates the governess he covets from the man she loves but on his deathbed he reveals the truth, and she is discovered teaching school near Melbourne. Sketchily written. (PB)
1 May King Cole , 1878 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 13 no. 155 1878; (p. 418-419) An English farmer adopts a little foundling discovered under a springtime hedge. On her wedding day she discovers her true mother - the squire's daughter. Unexceptional. (PB).
1 Old Highett's Assistant King Cole , 1878- single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 13 no. 154 (p. 364-365) Slight romance set in Windsor mansion on the banks of the Thames; a new gardener's assistant is ultimately revealed to be a beautiful but poverty-stricken girl in boy's disguise. (PB).
1 Fred Arden's Fate King Cole , 1877 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 13 no. 148 1877; (p. 29-30) A new chum, a Melbourne drapery salesman finds friendship and romance by rescuing a young blind girl at Brighton Beach's Red Bluff. (PB)
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