John's Wife single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1882... 1882 John's Wife
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US romance. A bachelor spends Christmas at the house of his Boston friend and meets his wife and sister-in-law. He is infatuated at once but is very perturbed on his friend's behalf when he sees the wife steal into his room at night and take his jewellery. An explanation of somnambulism puts him on close terms with his beloved. Slight. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 18 no. 209 October 1882 Z1014754 1882 periodical issue 1882 pg. 85-86
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