Miss Flint's Mistake single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 Miss Flint's Mistake
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Blighted romance. An old maid's determination to rectify the mistakes of her youth persuades her to encourage her adopted daughter to marry the son of her early love. She inteferes in the girl's love for a city clerk, persuading her to marry the local youth. After the ceremony the girl discovers her lover's faithfulness and disappears forever rather than live hypocritically with her husband. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 24 no. 291 August 1889 Z1081394 1889 periodical issue 1889 pg. 665-666
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