Jim's Wife single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 Jim's Wife
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Narrative of a slum visitor. Tale of a poor woman she has seen often, once attempting to take her drunken husband home. She sees her next in the hospital and hears her story of the couple's good life in the country and move to the city where unemployment, alcohol, her work as a laundress and the death of their little girl ruins their lives. The poor wife dies in hospital of fever, grieving for her husband. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 32 no. 380 January 1897 Z1071378 1897 periodical issue 1897 pg. 127-129
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