A Tale of a Ghost single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1883... 1883 A Tale of a Ghost
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Romance between two distant cousins blossoms during a Cambridge student's convalescence at a Devon country estate. His discovery of the bones of one of her family's ancestors immured alive in 1649 is prompted by a dream - and assists him to win her heart. Slightly odd mixture of life and death, romance and ghosts ... (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 19 no. 221 October 1883 Z1015256 1883 periodical issue 1883 pg. 100-102
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  • Devon (County),
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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