Mary Fortune

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Standard Name: Fortune, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Helena Wilson
Married Name: Mary Helena Fortune
Pseudonym: M. H. F.
Married Name: Mary Brett
Pseudonym: Waif Wander
Pseudonym: W. W.
MF, publishing under the pseudonyms Waif Wander, M. H. F., and W. W., wrote in a range of genres for the Australian periodical market in the second half of the nineteeth century and into the first decade of the twentieth. Her output includes hundreds of works on crime and detection; she is arguably the first woman to publish in the genre. In addition, she wrote poetry, sketches of life in colonial Australia, other journalism, memoirs, serialised novels including a work of gothic fiction, a pantomime that has not survived, and a recipe.
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Sussex, Lucy et al. “Introduction”. Mary Helena Fortune ("Waif Wander" / "W.W."), c. 1833-1910: A Bibliography, Department of English, University of Queensland, 1998, pp. 1-11.
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Sussex, Lucy, and Elizabeth Gibson. Mary Helena Fortune ("Waif Wander" / "W.W."), c. 1833-1910: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland, 1998.
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Timeline

1867: Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (a successful...

Writing climate item

1867

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (a successful American writer and publisher, as was her husband, Orville James Victor) serialised under the pseudonym Seeley Regester her novel The Dead Letter.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
under Orville James Victor
Nickerson, Catherine Ross, and Metta Victoria Fuller Victor. “Introduction”. The Dead Letter; and, The Figure Eight, Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 1-10.
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Texts

Sussex, Lucy, and Mary Fortune. “A Woman of Mystery”. The Detectives’ Album, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, pp. 3-18.
Fortune, Mary. “And Noah Builded an Altar”. The Australian Journal, Vol.
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, No. 3, p. 33.
Fortune, Mary. “Bertha’s Legacy”. The Australian Journal.
Fortune, Mary. “Cooée”. The Australian Journal, p. 49.
Fortune, Mary, and Victor Crittenden. Cooee: and Other Poems. Mulini Press, 1995.
Fortune, Mary. “Dora Carleton”. The Australian Journal.
Fortune, Mary. “Long Lead”. The Australian Journal, pp. 453-7.
Fortune, Mary. “My Lady Jane”. The Australian Journal, Vol.
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, No. 8, pp. 115-19.
Brett, Judith, and Mary Fortune. “Preface”. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune, edited by Lucy Sussex and Lucy Sussex, Penguin, 1989, p. ix - xi.
Fortune, Mary. “Song of the Gold Diggers”. Mount Alexander Mail, p. 6.
Fortune, Mary. “The Bushranger’s Autobiography”. The Australian Journal.
Fortune, Mary. The Detective’s Album. Clarson, Massina and Co., 1871.
Fortune, Mary. The Detective’s Album. Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2003.
Fortune, Mary, and Judith Brett. The Fortunes of Mary Fortune. Editor Sussex, Lucy, Penguin, 1989.
Fortune, Mary. “The Stolen Specimens”. The Australian Journal, Vol.
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, No. 7, pp. 106-8.
Fortune, Mary. “To my Little Son on his Birthday”. The Australian Journal, Vol.
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, No. 2, p. 30.
Fortune, Mary. “Twenty-Six Years Ago: or, the Diggings from ’55”. The Australian Journal.
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.