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1 In the Teeth of Circumstance Honor Bright , 1897 single work short story romance humour
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , August vol. 32 no. 387 1897; (p. 545-548) Humourous romance set in Melbourne, revolving around a boarding-house in South Yarra and the Grand Hotel in the city. A young man engages rooms for himself and his bride-to-be in the house of a woman recently widowed and her pretty daughter. His bride, arriving from England, refuses to see him for days after her arrival pleading influenza. He is jealous of the ship's handsome doctor and the daughter of his landlady begins to raise her hopes as he looks more and more unhappy and his fiancee has left the Grand. All is revealed when his fiancee appears unexpectedly at the house - is recognised by the landlady and finally confesses to her suitor that she had lost her false teeth overboard and had to get a new set. (PB)
1 Tony Knew Honor Bright , 1895 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 30 no. 361 1895; (p. 564-566) Domestic tragedy of newly arrived immigrants to Australia. Mary Leicester is left alone by the death of her husband three weeks after their arrival in Melbourne. The tale depicts her grief and solitariness; the kindness of the landlady's widowed sister; the comfort of her cat and the visitation of her husband's spirit after his funeral and before his rich squatter uncle comes to claim her. Slight with sketches of common human nature and a touch of comfort of the spirit - which the cat is aware of. (PB)
1 My Aunt's Picture Honor Bright , 1893 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 28 no. 338 1893; (p. 590-595) Domestic tale of a rich aunt whose picture has to be place in her favourite nephew's house to secure his inheritance. She loses all her money in mining speculations but true love is hers when she comes to live with her nephew and his wife. After her death £2000 is found in the picture frame ... (PB)
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