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'Being part of Chapter IV., Part II., of "The Working Man's Paradise", now in press and to be published on behalf of the Union Prisoners' Defence Fund.' (Note that this extract omits one paragraph from the text as it appears in the published novel).
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Notably, on p.vi, The Workingman's Paradise includes the following extract, which was from a letter the author evidently received soon after 'Nellie's Sister' was published in The Worker :
'In a western billabong, with a stretch of plain around, a dirty waterhole beside me, I sat and read The Worker. Maxwellton Station was handy ; and sick with a fever on me I crawled off my horse to the shed on a Sunday.They invited me to supper ; I was too ill. One gave me medicine, another The Worker, the cook gave me milk and soup. If this is Unionism, God bless it! This is the moleskin charity, not the squatter's dole. The manager gave me quinine, and this is a Union station. I read 'Nellie's Sister' (from The Workingman's Paradise) in your last. A woman's tenderness pervades it. Its fiction is truth. Although my feelings are blunted by bush life, I dropped a tear on that page of The Worker.'
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The Workingman's Paradise : An Australian Labour Novel
1892
single work
novel
(taught in 3 units)
An allegorical novel written in sympathy with the shearers involved in the 1891 Shearer's Strike.
- Brisbane, Queensland,
- ca. 1890s
