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A convict ship founders off the Australian coast and a baby is rescued through a convict's selflessness. When the 'baby' is 17 years old she meets the man who saved her and his family ... Moral overtones. (PB)
An adventurer arranges for his rival for a rich girl's affections to be committed to a lunatic asylum, from whence he is able to contact the narrator, a lawyer, in hopes of gaining release. (PB)
A loyal wife poses as a servant in the house of her estranged parents-in-law, upsetting the marriage schemes of Isabella Braham and the financial roguery of the foppish Mark Burwood. (Probably set in Melbourne). (PB)
A rising lawyer, the son of a blacksmith is rejected by the woman he loves. She marries position and lives to regret it, while he finds a true wife in her cousin. (PB)
In one mansion a young wife and mother lies dead, never recovering from the shock of the death of the husband disapproved by her father. In the other mansion lies the contented wife and mother with her husband reading to her, secure in motherhood and not a bluestocking. (PB)
A detective's convalescence at a rural Victorian station and his perusal of the Police Gazette assist him in recognising an old woman's murderer in the new housekeeper. The idle daughter of the house is of special assistance. (PB)
An orphan on a visit to her aunt is sent to purchase some flowers. Through mistaking rich young Mr Chariton for the gardener she finds herself a husband. (PB)
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Includes an instalment of Theresa Tasmania's novella Clari, pp.72-76.
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Includes second instalment of 'First Blood', pp. 89-90.
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Icludes a note on the death of Nathaniel Willis, Fanny Fern's father. p. 90.
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Includes 'Life Sketch of the Late Fanny Fern', Sara Payson Willis USA (1811 - 1872) followed by 'Our First Nurse' - the first article she wrote for the Ledger. pp. 342 - 343.
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Also contains a poem by Ethel Lynn on Fanny Fern's death: "Gathered Fern Leaves". pp. 343.
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Includes the eighth instalment of Leon Lewis' 'The Trapper's Last Trail', pp. 77-84.
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Includes eighth instalment of Marcus Clarke's serial fiction 'His Natural Life', pp. 61-70.