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Alternative title: Fate Knows No Tears : A Novel of Passion and Scandal in the Days of the Raj
Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Fate Knows No Tears
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'Author Mary Talbot Cross recreates the life of poet Violet Nicolson, a courageous and outspoken woman, who found fame in 1901 writing under the pseudonym 'Laurence Hope'. Nicolson's three volumes of poetry, in which she evoked echoes of India's fascinating past, and her passionate accounts of forbidden liaisons and sensuous jasmine-laden nights sent shock waves through the polite Edwardian society of the day.

''Fate Knows No Tears is an inviting, old-fashioned, light and sometimes frothy romance but it's also a picturesque and positive look at an exceptional woman.' - Steven Davenport, Independent Weekly'  (Publication summary) 

Notes

  • Epigraph: It seems to me that courage and loyalty are the only virtues that count, just as cruelty is the only vice for which there is no forgiveness.
    Blanche Alethea Crackanthorpe.
  • Author notes: '...I have relied...upon my own research and intuition in creating what I hope is a credible - if often fictional - account of the poet's life set against authentic events in the age in which she lived.'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Shalimar Press , 1996 .
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      Extent: 277p.
      Description: illus., map
      ISBN: 0958646600 (pbk.)
    • Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2009 .
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      Extent: 423p.
      Description: map
      ISBN: 9781862547858 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

The Latest Word Rebecca Ebert , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 18 2010; (p. 55-56)

— Review of Fate Knows No Tears Mary Talbot Cross , 1996 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Fiction Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 February 2009; (p. 28)

— Review of Fate Knows No Tears Mary Talbot Cross , 1996 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Fiction Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 February 2009; (p. 28)

— Review of Fate Knows No Tears Mary Talbot Cross , 1996 single work novel
The Latest Word Rebecca Ebert , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , March no. 18 2010; (p. 55-56)

— Review of Fate Knows No Tears Mary Talbot Cross , 1996 single work novel
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