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Issue Details: First known date: 1886... 1886 Lily's Fortune : A Tale of the Early Days of Forest Creek (Castlemaine)
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Notes:
Includes Stephen's short story 'The New Editor: an episode in the history of Warrener's Gulch, California.' (E. Morris Miller Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 620).
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Edwards, Dunlop and Company , ca. 1886 .
      Extent: [iv], 152, [16] p.p.
      Note/s:
      • General advertisements : Preliminary [iv] p. and [16] p. at rear.
      • 'Title page has 'Author of 'Saved by the Ring', 'The Palace Intrigue', etc.'(E. Morris Miller and Frederick Macartney Australian Literature : a bibliography to 1938 : extended to 1950 (1950): 443).
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New Publications : 'Lily's Fortune' 1887 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 5 February vol. 43 no. 1387 1887; (p. 268)
— Review of Lily's Fortune : A Tale of the Early Days of Forest Creek (Castlemaine) Harold W. H. Stephen , 1886 single work novel 'The heroine is an injured heiress who has been swindled out of her inheritance by a scapegrace cousin and a still more unprincipled lawyer, who, between them, have palmed off a post-dated will. Her cause is championed by an adventurous medico who had in early life resigned gold prospects in the old country for the romance of gold-seeking in the new. By the help of an old family retainer, casually met within the vicissitudes of colonial life, evidence is secured for repelling the fraudulent claim and a costly law-suit in England restores the heiress and her champion, who meanwhile had become her husband, to the long-lost fortune. The style and diction of the tale are in keeping with the roughest of early goldfield life.'
New Publications : 'Lily's Fortune' 1887 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 5 February vol. 43 no. 1387 1887; (p. 268)
— Review of Lily's Fortune : A Tale of the Early Days of Forest Creek (Castlemaine) Harold W. H. Stephen , 1886 single work novel 'The heroine is an injured heiress who has been swindled out of her inheritance by a scapegrace cousin and a still more unprincipled lawyer, who, between them, have palmed off a post-dated will. Her cause is championed by an adventurous medico who had in early life resigned gold prospects in the old country for the romance of gold-seeking in the new. By the help of an old family retainer, casually met within the vicissitudes of colonial life, evidence is secured for repelling the fraudulent claim and a costly law-suit in England restores the heiress and her champion, who meanwhile had become her husband, to the long-lost fortune. The style and diction of the tale are in keeping with the roughest of early goldfield life.'
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Subjects:
  • Victorian goldfields area, Victoria,
  • ca. 1850s
Settings:
  • Castlemaine, Castlemaine area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
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