Hester's Fortune single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1875... 1875 Hester's Fortune
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Tragic romance of the frail granddaughter of a Melbourne bookseller, inveigled into a secret marriage by a fortune-hunter who deserts her when he finds her penniless. At last about to marry again her first husband returns to claim her newly-declared fortune ... Evocative. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 11 no. 125 October 1875 Z1073525 1875 periodical issue 1875 pg. 87-90
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