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1881
Captain Marvin's Housekeeper
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A penniless English emigrant seeking work accepts a position as child's companion on a Victorian country station. On her arrival she finds the housekeeper full of citterness to her employer, the Captain, and his apparently mentally impaired daughter. The housekeeper's real identity, her madness and her terrible revenge through explosion and fire on the captain and his daughter are vividly portrayed. (PB)
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Subjects:
- 1870
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- Melbourne, Victoria,
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