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Issue Details: First known date: 1877... vol. 13 no. 148 September 1877 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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* Contents derived from the 1877 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Kate's Friend, George Smith, Kate Fane , single work short story
A self-acknowledged fat and red-haired heroine is pusued through a hunt picnic and station ball by a short ugly suitor - and refuses him. (PB)
 (p. 10-12)
Poor Bobbery, single work short story
A blind boy narrates his rescue from a flood in Kingstown by his faithful friend, Bobbery - at the cost of his own life. (PB)
 (p. 17-18)
At Rathdowne House, Sappha , single work short story
Station romance 100 miles north of Melbourne, when an English visitor meets the squatter's daughter. (PB)
 (p. 18-23)
Letty's Promises, single work short story
Set in Carbondale, near Boston, Letty Andrews promises her fiance never to marry another if he is killed in the East Indies. He is believed drowned but three years later is discovered alive and married and Letty is released. (PB)
 (p. 22-23)
The Medallion Locket, Patrick Shanahan , single work short story
Bachelors from an Epicurean Club in a Victorian township, survive an the parson's attempt to close them down through the discovery of his niece's locket after one of their concerts. (PB)
 (p. 24-25)
The New Firm, single work short story
A young penniless widow is abandoned by her husband's family when she refuses to give up her infant son. An old confectioner and his wife take her into their shop and romance follows. (PB)
 (p. 25-27)
Three Times, Allie W , single work short story
Two Melbourne bachelors become engaged, one for money, one for love after a short stay in the country. A railway station and a squatter's ball in north-east Victoria witness the three episodes. (PB)
 (p. 28)
Fred Arden's Fate, King Cole , single work short story
A new chum, a Melbourne drapery salesman finds friendship and romance by rescuing a young blind girl at Brighton Beach's Red Bluff. (PB)
 (p. 29-30)
Hereditary, W. W. , single work short story crime
A Christmas visit to the family of a Melbourne friend living near the Lodden in country Victoria involves Sinclair in a tale of romance, murder, and insanity. [Sinclair appears to be settling into a mature equanimity and imperviousness to romance.] (PB)
 (p. 33-36)
A Bush Wedding, J. R. L. , single work novella
Sketches a marriage between a Melbourne girl and a local youth in an up-country township in north-eastern Victoria. (PB)
 (p. 39-41)
Reminiscences of My First Ball, Allie Donahu , single work prose
Humourous account of a youth's clumsiness at his first ball. (PB)
 (p. 41)
Whose Fault Was It?, Amy , single work short story
A parlour maid is dismissed when her mistress discovers that her nephew is attracted to the girl. Rejected by him, her former employer and her parents she dies of a laudanum overdose. Sketchy.(PB).
 (p. 66)
La Belle Lillian, Loyola (fl.1877) , single work short story
Two East Melbourne bachelors - cousins - fall in love with a singer 'La Belle Lillian' who sings to support her mother ... Conventional romance pleasantly told - only the heroine's profession unusual.(PB).
 (p. 71-77)
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Notes:
Includes the sixth instalment of 'The Demon of Brockenheim; Or, The Enchanted Ring', pp. 1-10.
Notes:
Includes the final instalment of Europa's 'Saved at the Brink', pp. 13-16.
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