AustLit

Tale (from two narrators) revealing a ghost's protection of her earthly lover and his £1000 from the depredations of two Melbourne thieves. (PB)

Twelve years after their original Valentines Day misunderstanding (in the 1860s) Edith and Arthur meet again - with a little sisterly help. Moral - trust not to flowers and chance. (PB)

On the importance of seeking explanations ... (PB)

Ellinor Ellenby, friendless and penniless, accepts a position as a housekeeper/companion at a country station. On arrival she finds her charge, Anna Rutherford, is engaged to Ellinor's own husband Walter ... tragedy ensues. (PB)

Simpson, a Melbourne bank clerk, gambles by night and teaches at Sunday school where he meets pretty Fanny Ray, another teacher. She becomes more interested in her English cousin, John Dawkins, and a jealous David Simpson plots to separate them ... Increasingly complex storyline, set in and around Melbourne. Competent. (PB)

On the necessity of self-denial and forgiveness to human community. (PB)

How the narrator meets the 'wild' bachelor D'Arcy in Easyville, becoming friends; and how he is rejected by four of the local belles before he dyes his red hair black. (PB)

A collection of ghostly anecdotes told by students at a boy's college - concludes with the capture of a rat ... Patchy. (PB)