A Portrait of a Lady single work   short story   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 A Portrait of a Lady
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Ghost tale of an aspiring artist who completes a portrait of a lady who visits his room but once, exhibits it at the academy, sells it to a fashionable lady who swears it is her daughter drowned at sea but returned from the dead for her portrait. She pays handsomely for it and his reputation is made when the real sitter, an actress, returns for her commission. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 33 no. 401 October 1898 Z1075068 1898 periodical issue 1898 pg. 663-664
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