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Donnison, A.

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    Winning a Wife in Australia : a story drawn from actual experiences and illustrative of life in the present day in the Antipodes
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Summary

Donnison's first novel, Winning a Wife in Australia (1894), is a romance of station life that was published in London and Sydney. With the Banks at Her Mercy (1908), the story of an elaborate fraud, followed many years later, and was criticised in contemporary reviews for being too caught up in technical details of the scam.

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  • Donnison, A., Winning a Wife in Australia : a story drawn from actual experiences and illustrative of life in the present day in the Antipodes, Ward, Lock & Bowden, London, 1894, 360 pp. Details
  • Donnison, A., With the banks at her mercy : an Australian banking story, Lockley Library, Sydney, 1908, 224 pp. Details

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