Her Ladyship single work   short story   detective  
Is part of The Detective's Album Mary Fortune , Hugh Dalmore , Rex Grayson , A. C. Eiseman , M. Joseph Lynch , 1865 series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 Her Ladyship
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Set on a Riverina station, a motherless girl Dorothy grown up with almost no female supervision - wild, untidy and beautiful - is found a governess, a titled Englishwoman earning her own living because of her husband's dissipation. The girl's resentment is overcome by the lady's grace and the discovery that she has no intention of marrying her father, the Colonel. An infatuation for the dandy superintendent of the station is soon quashed when he reveals his calculating ways - and he and his brother, a former valet and thief, are eventually arrested and tried for robbing the Colonel, abducting and nearly killing him. Dorothy marries her governess' brother-in-law when he succeeds to the title, and the governess marries the local doctor - a gentleman. Interesting a little for the contrast between the wild girl and the lady. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 32 no. 388 September 1897 Z1073899 1897 periodical issue 1897 pg. 643-649
Last amended 28 Nov 2007 15:19:09
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  • Rural,
  • Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales,
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