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Letter to a brother-in-law recounting a husband's revolt after twenty years appeasing a overbearing wife. Set in Victoria - in a country town and Melbourne. A black silk dress, a hat wreathed with daisies and a holiday at her poor sister-in-law's are her downfall. (PB)
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Tom Spicer's Second Letter
1878
single work
short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 13 no. 156 1878; (p. 448-450) Tom's secpmd letter, recounting the progress of the battle between him and his wife six months on - including a sham illness and the cure; and an un-Christian prayer-meeting. (PB)
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