Short Fiction Locke, Sumner: The Painted Wooden Soldier, v1, 5 Jan 2024

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HELENA SUMNER LOCKE was born in Sandgate, now a northen beach suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, in 1881. It was then a seaside village, some miles from the capital. In 1888 the Locke family moved to Melbourne.
She began publishing short stories in The Bulletin and The Native Companion. By 1906, she branched out into plays and novels. She had published 3 plays and 4 novels as well as over 100 short stories by her early death in 1917.
She married Henry Elliott in January 1917, two weeks before he was posted to the front. She died after giving birth to son Sumner Locke Elliott in October 1917. The son subsequently embarked on his own considerable career as an author and dramatist.

1: White Hills and the Silences
2: Home for Christmas
3: "Potatoes and Diamonds"
4: That Horse
5: The Green Cat
6: A House of Mountain Ash
7: One Man from the West
8: Paper Ladies
9: Ragtime
10: A Question of Rights
11: At the Pitch of the Scrap
12: The Case of Camelia
13: The Painted Wooden Soldier
14: Mobilising Johnnie
15: What Luck
16: The Water Finders
17: Blue Wattles
18: As One British Subject to Another
19: A Lonely Man
20: When Dawson Died
21: The Life Sentence
22: The Eternal Softness
23: A Miss in the Mails
24: Hoofs and Horns and Hyacinths
25: The Claim on Emily Crow
26: An Office Derelict

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Nineteen stories and one short poem, all in the life + 70 public domain. The poem is by David Wright O'Brien, a short story writer who burst on the scene in the late 30s, and died over Berlin during WW2. It is, so far as I know, his only published verse.

1: The Hoof Slide / Ethel Lina White
2: The Ruby Rat / Albert Dorrington
3: The Mary Queen of Scots Jewel / William O. Fuller
4: A Regent of Love Rhymes / Guy Thorne
5: Le Roi est Mort / Ethel Lina White
6: Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad / M. R. James
7: The Black Patch / F. A. M. Webster
8: Introduction to a Stranger / David Wright O'Brien
9: The Haunted House / John Greenleaf Whittier
10: The Stolen Goddess / Scott Campbell
11: I Should Know Better / Peter Cheyney
12: The Thing in the Hall / E. F. Benson
13: My New Years Eve Among the Mummies / Grant Allen
14: Speed / Sinclair Lewis
15: The Last Dose / E. Temple Thurston
16: Lifeboat / Jeffery Farnol
17: Taken By Surprise / F. Anstey
18: Our Strange Traveller / Percy James Brebner
19: Too Plausible / Joseph W. Barry
20: Room Number 3 / Anna Katharine Green

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