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A sensationalist collection of tales about suicide, supposedly compiled by the convict George Barrington, who is used as the narrator of the first tale (set in New South Wales), and also the introduction to the work. In reality, the work was put together by the bookseller Thomas Tegg, or a hack writer working for him. The bulk of the stories in the collection are short gothic tales set in various parts of Europe.
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Title continues:'whether impelled by love, melancholy, penury, bigotry, depravity, remorse, or jealousy. Calculated to deter even the most wretched from this horrible crime, and enable them to bear with fortitude the ills of this life, by a comparative view of the miseries of some of their fellow creatures.'
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* Contents derived from the
London,
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England,c
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United Kingdom (UK),c
Western Europe,
Europe,:Tegg and Castleman
, 1803 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.-
Dreadful History of Anaboo,
single work
short story
romance
horror
(p. 5-15)An early imaginary exploration of the 'dangers' of European-Aboriginal relationships, the 'Dreadful History of Anaboo' was written in London by a hack writer with no experience of Aboriginal culture, and the story thus conforms to generalised European notions of 'savage' society. The heroine Anaboo, moreover, is a stock tragic figure, whose love for a white man drives her to commit suicide.
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