A Perfect Day single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1894... 1894 A Perfect Day
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Grace Longden emigrates to Melbourne from England after her father's financial ruin and suicide. She stays in a Fitzroy boarding house until her aunt arrives to take her to her country station near Camperdown in Victoria's west, when she meets her cousins. Tom proposes to her almost immediately and rescues her from a runaway horse - but she reveals an earlier engagement made in England. Tom's handsome younger brother Jim also proposes and is rejected. News of her English suitor's marriage to another frees her to follow her heart and marry Tom. Australian openness and relaxed manners, courtship and hospitality are linked to the blue skies and beauty of the landscape and contrasted with the colder but pretty equivalents in England. (PB)

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First known date: 1894
Serialised by: The Australian Journal 1865 periodical (900 issues)
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Serialised in two instalments in the Australian Journal 29.347 (April 1894) 447-452; 29.348 (May 1894) 488-490.
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