Wife and Mistress single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1873... 1873 Wife and Mistress
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A strong, beautiful and respectable woman, Barbara Walsh, marries a scapegrace Englishman sent to the island's civil service to avert his marriage to a farmer's daughter, Lucy Cleeve, seduced in England. When Lucy appears in Tasmania the liaison resumes until the wife murders Lucy and castrates her husband. [A footnote coyly refers to a similar incident in England.] (PB)

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  • Illustrated.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 8 no. 93 February 1873 Z1068947 1873 periodical issue 1873 pg. 293-294
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