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The Pearl of the White Hills single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1894... 1894 The Pearl of the White Hills
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Beautiful Pearl is the daughter of an English artist transported to Sydney for a crime he did not commit, and his wife who followed him with his foster brother, Strahan. She believes Strahan to be her father but his murder of a visiting gold buyer alerts her and the two men - US digger Conkling and an English doctor, Howard - who share their log cabin, that revenge of some sort is on hand. Howard proposes to Pearl and Strahan decides to warn off Frampton, an English acquaintance who knows Pearl's history and Strahan's crime ... More deaths follow. Comments on police tyranny and revolt on the goldfields. (PB)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1894
Serialised by: The Australian Journal 1865 periodical (900 issues)
Notes:
Serialised in two instalments in the Australian Journal 29.348 (May 1894) 505-508; 29.349 (June 1894) 546-550.
Last amended 7 May 2008 15:20:52
Subjects:
  • 1852
Settings:
  • Bendigo, Bendigo area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
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