George the Nun single work   short story   romance  
Note: Adapted from the French for the Australian Journal by E. Branfill Harrison. (PB)
Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 George the Nun
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Romance and brotherly honour in the Franco-Prussian war. A Jesuit novice carries out his dead brother's dying request from the battlefront and seeks and marries the innocent girl he had seduced. Then 'George the Nun' seeks his own death in the war ... Slight; ironic twists. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 27 no. 318 November 1891 Z1037672 1891 periodical issue 1891 pg. 158-159
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