If My First Wife single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 If My First Wife
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English romance with Australian connections. An Englishman returns home after making a fortune as a squatter in Australia, and doubling it by marrying an elderly colonial widow who drowns when their ship goes down on the way home. He marries again within a year but makes his young and pretty wife unhappy with continual reference to his former wife - until his brother-in-law arranges for him to receive a telegram from that supposedly deceased party ... Light; humorous references to the returned squatter's unpoetic nature. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 20 no. 237 February 1885 Z1020515 1885 periodical issue 1885 pg. 315-317
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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