The Pawnbroker's Drawer series - author   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1883... 1883 The Pawnbroker's Drawer
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The Pawnbroker's Drawer 1 Indi , 1883 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 19 no. 220 1883; (p. 26-28) Family tale set in England and Australia. A lady's visit to a Melbourne pawnbroker results in the purchase of a wedding ring and during a visit to Ballarat she meets the mother of the woman named in the ring. With the help of the ring, the woman's parents are at last able to discover her fate and rescue their poor child from a factory and her husband from drink.
The Pawnbroker's Drawer 2 Indi , 1883 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 19 no. 221 1883; (p. 83-85) This tale of an embroidered vest reveals a tragic romance set in Scotland where two cousins are separated by a father's determination that his daughter should marry a richer man. Clement Nairne comes to Australia as Stanley Eyre and joins the Victorian Mounted Police but when he hears of Lilian Ayrlie's death of a broken heart he gives up and turns to dissipation, eventually returning to Scotland to die. In Australia he had become friends with the narrator's mother. Well written with a slight touch of the psychic. Very harmonious. (PB)
The Pawnbroker's Drawer 3 Indi , 1883 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , November vol. 19 no. 222 1883; (p. 164-168) A beautiful Melbourne woman loses the man she loves to her beautiful but non-flirtatious cousin, and when they marry she partially loses her reason, eventually drowning herself in the Yarra. Slighter achievement than the first two stories in the series.(PB)

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