The Shears of Fate single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1892... 1892 The Shears of Fate
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Russian tale of a former Georgian slave turned cruel mistress of the Emperor's minister. She has the sweetheart of her youth flogged for following her to St Petersburg and telling her of his love - and she is found eventually in her room, decapitated by garden shears. Slight; violence well described. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 27 no. 321 February 1892 Z1038263 1892 periodical issue 1892 pg. 296-297
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