One year after her first marriage MF
gave birth to a son who was named Joseph George
, and baptised in a Protestant church in Canada.
Sussex, Lucy. “’Shrouded in Mystery’: Waif Wander (Mary Fortune)”. A Bright and Fiery Troop: Australian Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin, 1988, pp. 117-31.
119
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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Residence
Mary Fortune
MF
(then probably twenty-two) landed in Melbourne, Australia, with her three year-old son
, at the end of a voyage via Britain from Canada (having married at Melbourne, Quebec).
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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Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.