A young Australian, who helped manage his cousin Peter's sheep ranch. He was too poor to marry Catherine Baird, and she had married Peter whom she soon came to hate. After Peter's death she refused his estate and turned it over to John, who accepted it on condition that she would marry him.
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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GEROULD, WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton
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1976 renewed PUP
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