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Beneath the Surface single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1878... 1878 Beneath the Surface
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The story opens when charming Lewish Ashton meets Selina Loudon the beautiful Melbourne heiress at a Victorian seaside village. Their engagement precipitates a quarrel with Ashton's closest friend Rupert Milne who had loved her too. On the seashore one night Milne knocks Ashton unconscious and leaves him to be drowned by the tide. He proceeds to console Selina, eventually winning her consent to marry him but on the eve of their wedding a blackmailer informs her of Milne's deed. She refuses him and Ashton returns from the dead ... (PB)

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First known date: 1878
Serialised by: The Australian Journal 1865 periodical (900 issues)
Notes:
Serialised in two instalments in the Australian Journal: 13.157 (June 1878) pp. 503-506; and 13.158 (July 1878) pp. 553-557.
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