Mariette single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 Mariette
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Tale of a faithful and loving Frenchwoman who takes a position in Paris as a governess to earn enough to allow herself and her fiancee - disabled in the war - to set themselves up in business. The brother of her pupil is angered when she refuses to marry him and has her tried as a thief and hung. She recovers from the hanging to marry her soldier. Undercurrent of Napoleonic order replacing Revolutionary chaos. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 24 no. 280 September 1888 Z1076999 1888 periodical issue 1888 pg. 35-37
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