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A strong, beautiful and respectable woman, Barbara Walsh, marries a scapegrace Englishman sent to the island's civil service to avert his marriage to a farmer's daughter, Lucy Cleeve, seduced in England. When Lucy appears in Tasmania the liaison resumes until the wife murders Lucy and castrates her husband. [A footnote coyly refers to a similar incident in England.] (PB)
Romance set in a Damascus bazaar between a young Englishman and a veiled beauty - a Caliph's wife. A tragic ending resolves itself into a dream ... (PB)
Maggie Dysart leaves her little Scots village to emigrate to Australia. She spies a sailor adrift on the sea, he is saved and they fall in love. On landing [in Melbourne] she takes a job as a domestic servant to an up-country station owner, an evil-intentioned escaped convict with one mad-woman in his hovel already. Interesting depiction of female immigrants, "Jenny Grants" and their treatment and for the grotesquerie of the convict's mad-woman. (PB)
Euripides Bimble, a New Hampshire school teacher, is tempted West to be editor of "The Scalpers' Bluff Bulletin". Encounters wih local political and literary aspirants convince him to return home. (PB)
Written on October 20th, the letter describes the boat from Victoria arriving in Darwin, the duties levied on their supplies, local prospects for gold, and the character of the inhabitants, climate etc. Brief. (PB)
A stranger returns to the godless drunken bush settlement of Forgong and thence to Kallone station where a marriage was to take place. This self-exiled older brother who seduced and left to die a foster-sister before, brings violence and tragedy with him again. (PB)
On the degree of responsibility that can - or can not - be appointed for unforeseen consequences of a deed - particularly in the private sphere. (PB) Refers to Adam Bede by English novelist George Eliot.