Caroline Shelley Caroline Shelley i(A75024 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Mademoiselle's Niece Caroline Shelley , 1898 single work short story humour
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , February vol. 33 no. 393 1898; (p. 150-153)
A maiden aunt of French lineage plans a marriage between her unfashion-minded writer-niece and the rich son of an old school friend. Instead, the writer elopes with a dramatist - formerly her beautiful sister's suitor - leaving the rich gentleman to her sister who loves him anyway. (PB)
1 In the Nineteenth Century Caroline Shelley , 1890 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , August vol. 25 no. 303 1890; (p. 665)
English; woman present meets woman past. An ancestress of a young 19th century lady steps down from her portrait, passes her opinion on the freedom and dress of the day, and returns. Reveals the aristocratic pretensions of the family to be false. Light; amusing and lively. (PB)
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