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5 y separately published work icon Lady Anna Anthony Trollope , 1873 Z1504960 1873 single work novel Trollope describes the novel thus: 'A young girl, who is really a lady of high rank and great wealth, though in her youth she enjoyed none of the priveleges of wealth and rank, marries a tailor who had been good to her, and whom she loved when she was poor and neglected' (An Autobiography). Trollope wrote Lady Anna en route from Liverpool to Melbourne and the novel ends with the emigration of Lady Anna and her husband to Australia. (Sadleir)
9 68 y separately published work icon Picnic at Hanging Rock Joan Lindsay , Melbourne : Cheshire , 1967 Z305085 1967 single work novel historical fiction mystery (taught in 2 units)

'It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned. ...'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin Random House, 2014).
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