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y separately published work icon The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction anthology   short story   extract   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Melbourne University Press , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Desolate Homestead, Hal , single work short story romance
Romantic tragedy. A young Englishman establishes a house for his youthful bride only to discover that she has been seduced on the ship out and has fled with her lover. The husband watches over her and when she is cast off provides her with the home he has prepared but he leaves. She dies of sorrow, and, several years after, having returned to England to prevent the marriage of her seducer, he dies too. Well told. (PB)
(p. 13-27)
A Romance of Coma, Mura Leigh , single work short story romance (p. 28-36)
Twelve Miles Broad, James Skipp Borlase , single work short story romance
Australian tale of bushfire and romance. Christmas Day 1884 sees the narrator gallop across the dry tinder bushland to the home of his beloved Gretchen and her German father. A vengeful swagman, refusing to take his lunch and go peaceably, ignites a bushfire that destroys the homestead and nearly catches the escaping couple. Only one horse remaining at the homestead, the father had shot himself to persuade his daughter to go ... Well-told; still with an eye to the English reader. (PB)
(p. 37-44)
Barren Love, Tasma , single work short story (p. 45-58)
Victims of Circe, K. Mannington Caffyn , single work short story (p. 59-91)
Miss Jackson, Frank Hawkesbury , single work short story (p. 92-99)
Elsie Nowell A Bush Girl, Francis Adams , single work short story (p. 100-112)
Lorna Travis : A Christmas Story, F. E. Forrester , single work short story romance
Family saga, set in Toorak, Melbourne in the late 1880s after the Crash. Lorna is wooed by rich, middle-aged, unpleasant George Langly - favoured by her mother for his money - and handsome Colin Rooke, friend of her brother Lynn returning from colonial experience in Queensland. Pressure exerted by Langly through his mortgage over their family home is frustrated when Colin's sister identifies him as the husband who deserted her in America - her claims supported by the opera singer he abandoned after marrying her bigamously. Colin's recall of £50,000 in Broken Hill mining shares are the icing on the cake ... Pleasant tale of wealthy lives in post-Boom Melbourne. Full descriptions of balls and gardens. (PB)
(p. 113-143)
A Love Story, Henry Lawson , single work short story humour romance (p. 144)
An Unfinished Love Story, Henry Lawson , single work short story
Brook visits the selection he left fifteen years before. While there he amuses himself by courting the tenant's plain and unworldly niece, but leaves her behind when he returns to the city.
(p. 145-149)
A Sweet Day, Ada Cambridge , single work short story (p. 150-163)
Larrikin of Diamond Creek, E. W. Hornung , single work short story romance (p. 164-174)
Cross Currents, Mrs Patchett Martin , single work short story romance (p. 175-201)
The Inside Station, Douglas Sladen , single work short story historical fiction romance (p. 202-214)
The Red Kangaroo, Ethel Castilla , single work short story romance (p. 215-223)
The Housekeeper, Mabel Forrest , single work short story romance (p. 224-240)
A Book of Verses, Alice Grant Rosman , single work short story romance (p. 241-250)
The Bushman's Love Story, Rosa Praed , single work short story romance (p. 251-269)
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