Shot single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1879... 1879 Shot
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A tale of the Victorian gold diggings, 1857-62. A woman is shot by her drunken lover but reunited with the English husband she had never loved on her deathbed. He pursues her murderer finding and killing him on a diggings near Bendigo five years later. Narrated by a mate of the wronged husband; includes a reminiscence of the couple's courting days and early married life in an English village. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 14 no. 167 April 1879 Z1084947 1879 periodical issue 1879 pg. 387-391
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