A Private Arrangement single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 A Private Arrangement
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

The tale of a young man who has come to Australia looking to marry an heiress. He secures a position as a private secretary to the governor and it is the governor's wife who sets him up with a grazier's daughter. However, a few problems are encountered before a mutually satisfactory conclusion is reached.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Bushigrams Guy Boothby , London : Ward, Lock , 1897 Z137511 1897 selected work short story drama London : Ward, Lock , 1897 pg. 157-170
    Note:

    With epigraph: 'True love is at home on a carpet,/And mightily likes his ease;/And true love has an eye for a dinner,/And starves beneath shady trees./His wing is the fan of a lady,/His foot's an invisible thing,/And his arrow is tipped with a jewel,/And shot from a silver string.' Love in a Cottage.

    Also contains a full page illustration.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail vol. 64 no. 1950 20 November 1897 Z1553819 1897 newspaper issue 1897 pg. 1084-1085
VIEW PUBLICATION DETAILS FOR ALL VERSIONS ()
Last amended 4 Jul 2018 16:23:24
Subjects:
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X