y separately published work icon A Wife by Proxy single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1926... 1926 A Wife by Proxy
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'Julian Firth, a young Australian, agrees to contract a formal marriage with a Russian aristocrat in order that she might be able to leave Moscow. He finds, however, that he has married somebody else, and that the girl he should have married has committed a murder. The tangle is straightened out in the end, and happiness follows. It is quite a good story, well told, with the interest well sustained, but one feels that an Australian novelist is on safer ground when dealing with scenes that are more familiar than Russian, and with mentality less erotic and esoteric.'

Source:

'Erica Maxwell', The Queenslander, 16 October 1926, p.8.

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Alternative title: Anstataua edzino
Language: Esperanto

Works about this Work

Two Books by Australian Authors 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 October vol. 61 no. 727 1926; (p. 1195)

— Review of Chinese Lacquer : An Australian Story Hilda Bridges , 1926 single work novel ; A Wife by Proxy Erica Maxwell , 1926 single work novel
Two Books by Australian Authors 1926 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , 1 October vol. 61 no. 727 1926; (p. 1195)

— Review of Chinese Lacquer : An Australian Story Hilda Bridges , 1926 single work novel ; A Wife by Proxy Erica Maxwell , 1926 single work novel
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