Miscellaneous Short Stories
The table shows Mary Grant Bruce’s miscellaneous short stories. These are not listed elsewhere on this site. It supplements the Anthologies and the other Short Stories pages.
These stories cover a wide range, including yarns for children and for adults, news reports and travelogues. Some of them are very funny.
There are two somewhat longer articles from Blackwood’s Magazine (Edinburgh). First, a subject she knew very well: ‘Gippsland’ (1938). Second, ‘Ships I have Known’ (1939). Mary recounts how, at age eight, she was avidly reading the penny dreadful ‘Jack Harkaway’ naval adventures: “With that dauntless hero I went through incredible naval adventures . . . The unfortunate accident of being a girl, for which I blamed my parents bitterly, was no real hindrance to my rapid promotion to flag rank. Not even the First Lord of the Admiralty could have held me back.”
The Age (Melbourne) published 25 of these stories. It was the weekday, city only, counterpart to The Leader, Victoria’s statewide weekend paper. One was Mary Grant Bruce’s final story: ‘Wool — and the Man From Leeds’. The Age published it as a scoop in 1951. That year, Mary turned 73 years old! The article was a prescient warning about the new synthetic textile fibres and what that might mean for Australians. The national economy had “ridden on the sheep’s back” for over a century.
This table is not complete. We have not been able to find Mary’s contributions to Cassell’s Magazine, Strand and The Windsor Magazine in Australian libraries. If you can supply and prove additional information for them, please do contact us so that we can improve this page.
Miscellaneous Short Stories
| Title | Publication | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Gum Nuts | BBC Broadcast | 1937 |
| Jill's Saturday | BBC Broadcast | 1935 |
| Gippsland | Blackwood's Magazine | 1938 |
| Ships I have Known | Blackwood's Magazine | 1939 |
| Friends | British Girls Annual 1914 | 1913 |
| The Women Who Made Us | Centenary Gift Book | 1934 |
| Wattle Day in Australia | Daily Mail (London) | 1913 |
| Lives of Men | Junior Red Cross Record | 1944 |
| A Bush Fire | Register | 1910 |
| A Bargain Sale | The Age | |
| A Day in Durban | The Age | 1913 |
| A Gippsland Morning | The Age | 1906 |
| Babies and Common Sense | The Age | |
| Bachelor Women | The Age | |
| Bands Under Difficulties | The Age | |
| In the Victoria Market | The Age | |
| Life's Embroideries | The Age | |
| Mist | The Age | 1913 |
| Mothers of Tomorrow | The Age | 1912 |
| Servants of the Pit | The Age | 1913 |
| Show Babies | The Age | 1911 |
| Tell Me A Story | The Age | 1912 |
| The Prison of Age | The Age | 1912 |
| The Show Creche | The Age | 1912 |
| The Tree | The Age | |
| The Unemployed Woman | The Age | |
| The Womans' Conference | The Age | 1912 |
| Two Ways of Living | The Age | 1912 |
| With the Show Crowd | The Age | 1912 |
| Women and News | The Age | |
| Wool and The Man From Leeds | The Age | 1951 |
| Working Girls At Home | The Age | |
| Girls in Business | The Age? | 1912 |
| Women and Pride | The Age? | 1912 |
| Wasted | The Argus | 1907 |
| The Capture of O'Connor | The Australasian Traveller | 1906 |
| An Australian Morning | The British Girl's Annual 1914 | 1913 |
| A Ballad of Dead "Pars" | The Bulletin | |
| A Religious Outlook | The Bulletin | |
| A Snake Story | The Lone Hand | 1912 |
| Port Arthur Today | The Lone Hand | 1913 |
| A Deal in Leather | The Northern Miner (Charters Towers) | 1907 |
| The Forgotten Dead: A Hobart Graveyard | The Southern Sphere | 1912 |
| The Gippsland Lakes Trip | The Southern Sphere | 1912 |
| An Empire's Monument | The Woman's Paper | 1907 |
| Alanna's Mind | Traralgon Journal | |
| Value for Money | West Wyalong Advocate | 1942 |
| A Summer Visitor | Woman's World | 1925 |
| Apples | Woman's World | 1926 |
| Bob and the Barracouta | Woman's World | 1925 |
| Dawn -- A Story of Queensland | Woman's World | 1926 |
| How Freda Rode the Black Mare | Woman's World | 1925 |
| Labour Savers for Australia | Woman's World | 1928 |
| Labour Savers from Olympia | Woman's World | 1928 |
| The Barracks Baby | Woman's World | 1926 |
| The Black Imp's Race | Woman's World | 1926 |
| The Boy Who was a Changeling | Woman's World | 1925 |
| The Cruise of Jimmy Parker | Woman's World | 1927 |
| The Match Box | Woman's World | 1925 |
| The Straw Slipper | Woman's World | 1925 |
| The Swagman Who Did Not Use Soap | Woman's World | 1925 |
| A Knight-Errant of the Road | ||
| A Little Brick: A Study of Australian Farm Life | ||
| A Woman of Cork | ||
| Armistice Day in Rome | ||
| Below Stairs | ||
| Brigand | ||
| Brighter Broadcasting Breakfasts | ||
| Cupboard Papers | ||
| Daughters of the Bush | ||
| Dream | ||
| Economy in Clothes | ||
| Eel Yarns | ||
| Escape with Treasure | ||
| Exaggerations of Speech | ||
| Facing New Jobs | ||
| Illicit Gold Buying | ||
| Immigrants and Wives | ||
| Pioneering in Australia | ||
| Poppies and Remembrance | ||
| Publican and Sinners | ||
| School for Wives | ||
| Schools Exhibition | 1906 | |
| Snakes and Their Ways | ||
| South Street Prizes | 1904? | |
| Story-Time | ||
| The Burying of Hennessy | ||
| The Canvasser | ||
| The Captain of the Pearl Star | ||
| The Girl With a Tongue | ||
| The Inconstant Charwoman | ||
| The Morning of the Cup | ||
| The Problem of the Hired Girl | ||
| The Reaping | ||
| The Roving Spirit of the Londoner | ||
| The Swing of the Axe | ||
| The Working Daughter | ||
| This Day | ||
| Very Legitimate Guys | ||
| Water |
The Trustee of The Mary Grant Bruce Family Trust owns the copyrights to Mary Grant Bruce’s short stories.