MF
married as her second husband mounted police officer Percy Rollo Brett
, at Dunolly, Victoria.
Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “A Woman of Mystery”. The Detectives’ Album, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, Apr. 2003, pp. 3-18.
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Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “What the Mischief Does a Bonnet Want Here?: An Introduction to Mary Fortune (Waif Wander)”. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex, Penguin, 1989, p. xii - xxiii.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Fortune
After less than seven years of marriage, MF
's second husband
eloped with and married another woman, Mary Leek
.
Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “What the Mischief Does a Bonnet Want Here?: An Introduction to Mary Fortune (Waif Wander)”. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex, Penguin, 1989, p. xii - xxiii.
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Friends, Associates
Mary Fortune
In the 1876 article My Friends and Acquaintances (about dogs) MF
notes that her (human) friends would term her a rather peculiar creature.
qtd. in
Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “A Woman of Mystery”. The Detectives’ Album, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, Apr. 2003, pp. 3-18.
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In her preface to the 1989 collection of MF
's journalism...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Fortune
The story formed a part of the ongoing series entitled Adventures of an Australian Mounted Trooper, to which, along with its companion series Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer, Fortune contributed between October...
Textual Features
Mary Fortune
This time MF
's heroine goes to Australia to escape her rake of a husband, Annesley de Vesey. She remarries on hearing a (false) report of his death. Dora utimately reconciles with de Vesey after...