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An Australian Girl

Catherine Martin (1848–1937)

Novel · first published 1890 · London: Richard Bentley (published anonymously; this text from the 1894 edition)

Stella Courtland, clever and questioning, weighs love, faith and duty in South Australia and Europe.

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About 186,929 words · roughly 13.1 hours of reading (long) · 42 sections online · In: Early women writers

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Catherine Martin (author) died in 1937. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1987. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1890. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. AN AUSTRALIAN GIRL
  2. AN AUSTRALIAN GIRL
  3. CHAPTER I.
  4. CHAPTER II.
  5. CHAPTER III.
  6. CHAPTER IV.
  7. CHAPTER V.
  8. 'DEAR STELLA,
  9. CHAPTER VI.
  10. CHAPTER VII.
  11. CHAPTER VIII.
  12. CHAPTER IX.
  13. CHAPTER X.
  14. 'MY DEAR CUTHBERT,
  15. CHAPTER XI.
  16. CHAPTER XII.
  17. CHAPTER XIII.
  18. CHAPTER XIV.
  19. CHAPTER XV.
  20. CHAPTER XVI
  21. CHAPTER XVII.
  22. CHAPTER XVIII.
  23. CHAPTER XIX.
  24. CHAPTER XX.
  25. CHAPTER XXI.
  26. CHAPTER XXII.
  27. CHAPTER XXIII.
  28. CHAPTER XXIV.
  29. CHAPTER XXV.
  30. CHAPTER XXVI.
  31. CHAPTER XXVII.
  32. CHAPTER XXVIII.
  33. CHAPTER XXIX.
  34. CHAPTER XXX.
  35. CHAPTER XXXI.
  36. CHAPTER XXXII
  37. CHAPTER XXXIII.
  38. CHAPTER XXXIV.
  39. CHAPTER XXXV.
  40. CHAPTER XXXVI.
  41. CHAPTER XXXVII.
  42. 'DEAREST FRIEND,
  43. 'THE INNERMOST-LITTLE-LEAFLET-OF-YOUR-HEART.'
  44. CHAPTER XXXVIII.
  45. 'SWEET ST. CHARITY,
  46. 'ANSELM LANGDALE.'
  47. 'DEAR ROSE,
  48. 'DEAR STELLA,
  49. CHAPTER XXXIX.
  50. CHAPTER XL.
  51. CHAPTER XLI.
  52. CHAPTER XLII.
  53. '"MY DEAR MRS. COURTLAND,
  54. 'DEAREST MOTHER, AND ALL OF YOU,
  55. CHAPTER XLIII.
  56. CHAPTER XLIV.
  57. CHAPTER XLV.
  58. CHAPTER XLVI
  59. CHAPTER XLVII.
  60. CHAPTER XLVIII.
  61. CHAPTER XLIX.
  62. CHAPTER L.
  63. CHAPTER LI.
  64. CHAPTER LII.
  65. CHAPTER LIII.
  66. CHAPTER LIV.
  67. CHAPTER LV.
  68. CHAPTER LVI.
  69. THE END.

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