Cynthia Cynthia i(A74868 works by)
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1 The Answer to Every Housewives Prayer i "No ticker tape welcomes for the veterans", Cynthia , 1979 single work poetry
— Appears in: Womanspeak , March-April vol. 4 no. 4 1979; (p. 22)
1 Untitled i "8pm on a Saturday night.", Cynthia , 1978 single work poetry
— Appears in: Womanspeak , September-October vol. 4 no. 2 1978; (p. 22)
1 A Summer Night's Dream : A Story in Three Parts Cynthia , 1890 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , January vol. 25 no. 296 1890; (p. 251-256) Strongly-realised romance set in Victoria from 1882-1886. A prophetic dream at Christmas time in 1882 heralds the narrator's meeting with beautiful Olive Glynn at a Victorian seaside vacation spot one year later. He, 32 and a successful Melbourne businessman and bachelor, goes sailing with the independent world-travelling Englishwoman and they fall in love. They are forced to separate when she reveals that she is worried - though separated from her bestial husband in England. Three years later she returns to Melbourne, her husband having died ... Basic plot structure familiar but style, tone and characterisation of the 'mature' lovers plus the dream-quality of settings etc., is above average. (PB)
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