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1 Grace Dawson Primrose , 1871 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 6 no. 70 1871; (p. 391-392)
A newly married couple through his family's displeasure at the match emigrate from Melbourne to the country. After years on the diggings, and a period of dire poverty and some humiliation, they strike a nugget and buy a farm on the Lodden. Australia has become their home. (PB)
1 The Hop-Farmer's Daughter : An Autobiography Primrose , 1870 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 5 no. 60 1870; (p. 544-545)
Of her childhood in Kent, short time at a Maidstone boarding school, her mother's death and father's subsequent remarriage. After her stepmother has a son she marries and migrates to Australia but her husband dies on the voyage and her stepmother intercepts her letter to her father. Finally, after his death and a time of poverty, she marries a rich husband and prospers. (PB)
1 The Splitter's Hut Primrose , 1869 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 5 no. 52 1869; (p. 59-60)
On the romance of a handsome young splitter and his pretty refined wife in the Australian bush, a comfort to both for lost loved ones - a seduced lover and a dead father. (PB)
1 Ellen West's Lovers Primrose , 1869 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 5 no. 53 1869; (p. 123-124)
Romance of a mining town past its prime, and the disruption of true love by a showy young mine manager. (PB)
1 A Night of Suspense Primrose , 1869 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 4 no. 49 1869; (p. 607)
A wife's troubled night searching fruitlessly for the husband she believes drowned. (PB)
1 Nellie : A Life Sketch Primrose , 1869 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 30 January vol. 4 no. 179 1869; (p. 365-366)
Two proposals, a marriage, emigration to Australia, his death after a mining accident; and remarriage to the faithful Nellie. (PB)
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