An Old Maid's Story single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1886... 1886 An Old Maid's Story
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English tale of love's vengeance. A paralysed woman tells her niece of the pain of her youth when she discovered her fiancee loved her scheming cousin, the rupture of their engagement and his re-engagement to the cousin. A lightning flash is all that prevents her burning her cousin in her bridal robes. Thin; bizarre ending - the cousin's stratagems well depicted. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 21 no. 249 February 1886 Z1029525 1886 periodical issue 1886 pg. 326-327
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