Blackmail! single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1935... 1935 Blackmail!
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A swagman with a wonderful singing voice falls in love with a young woman who is suffering from paralysis when he helps her home from her mother's grave. They meet again when he is working in the city as a barrister, but the girl does not recognise him until she hears him sing at a concert.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Paraplegia (the result of irregular, unspecified 'attacks').
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Third person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Queenslander 7 March 1935 Z1383295 1935 newspaper issue 1935 pg. 5, 16
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