Our Confederate Relative single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 Our Confederate Relative
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Romance of the South during the Civil War, narrated by the Quaker heroine's sister. An engagement is broken at the beginning of the war when the Quaker-educated heroine is unable to enthuse over her fiancee's enlistment. He becomes engaged instead to his ambitious cousin but when he loses a leg she abandons him in hospital for a rising rival. His first love nurses him in hospital and they are eventually married, he with a new respect for her values. Calmly crafted tale - unusual theme of restrained religious anti-militarism. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 24 no. 282 November 1888 Z1081948 1888 periodical issue 1888 pg. 125-127
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