Irene single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1890... 1890 Irene
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Gothic romance. An English couple living in Italy both share ill-health. The wife apparently dies of epilepsy but a spirit comes to the husband while affected by laudanum and he digs up his wife's grave at its direction. He finds she is alive still, and her epilepsy is healed ... 'Weird' - combination of drug, fever, death and the supernatural. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 25 no. 303 August 1890 Z1033508 1890 periodical issue 1890 pg. 672-673
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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