The Moving Finger
Stories of the Victorian bush and goldfields, from a Christmas on the diggings to a country steeplechase.
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About 56,487 words · roughly 4.0 hours of reading (medium) · 8 sections online · In: Early women writers
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- In Australia
Mary Gaunt (author) died in 1942. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1992. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.
- In the United States
First published in 1895. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.
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rights.json, checked 2026-10-19. Death dates: Mary Gaunt (Wikidata, ADB, catalogue). First publication: reference.
Contents
- THE MOVING FINGER
- By Mary Gaunt
- “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety and wit Shall lore it back to cancel half a li
- METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1895
- Contents
- TROTTING COB
- CHRISTMAS EVE AT WARWINGIE
- LOST
- “Helm, old man, we ‘ve lost the track!”
- THE LOSS OF THE “VANITY
- “You don’t care. Oh! Susy, you don’t care!
- DICK STANESBY’S HUTKEEPER
- THE YANYILLA STEEPLECHASE
- My dear, my dear, so you want to know why I am an old maid?
- A DIGGER’S CHRISTMAS
- Brendon and Son, Printers; Plymouth
