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Author |
Title |
Length |
Newspaper |
Nationality |
| Balzac, Honore de | Sworn on the Crucifix | Serialised | The Herald (Fremantle) | French |
| Balzac, Honore de | The Chouans: A Tale of the French Revolution | Serialised | Launceston Advertiser | French |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities | Serialised | The Age | British |
| Dickens, Charles | American Notes for General Circulation | Serialised | Southern Australian | British |
| Dickens, Charles | American Notes for General Circulation | Serialised | The Sydney Morning Herald | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Barbox Brothers | Serialised | Empire | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Barbox Brothers & Co. | Single issue | Adelaide Observer | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Barnaby Rudge | Serialised | Australasian Chronicle | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard Times | Serialised | The Argus | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit | Serialised | Launceston Advertiser | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Little Dorrit | Serialised | The Age | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Master Humphrey’s Clock | Single issue | Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Literary Record | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Master Humphrey’s Clock | Serialised | Australasian Chronicle | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Our Mutual Friend | Serialised | Empire | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Our Mutual Friend | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Dickens, Charles | Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Serialised | The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser | British |
| Dickens, Charles | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Serialised | Australian Town and Country Journal | British |
| Dickens, Charles | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Serialised | Evening News | British |
| Disraeli, Benjamin | Endymion | Serialised | Adelaide Observer | British |
| Disraeli, Benjamin | Lothair | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Disraeli, Benjamin | Tonnerre | Serialised | Melbourne Punch | British |
| Dumas, Alexander | Marie Antoinette; or, The Chevalier of the Red House | Serialised | Colonial Times | French |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Chevalier de Maison Rouge: A Tale of the French Revolution | Serialised | Camperdown Chronicle | French |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Chevalier de Maison Rouge: A Tale of the French Revolution | Serialised | Morwell Advertiser | French |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Chevalier de Maison Rouge: A Tale of the Reign of Terror | Serialised | Evelyn Observer, and South and East Bourke Record | French |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Chevalier de Maison Rouge: A Tale of the Reign of Terror | Serialised | The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal | French |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Chevalier de Maison Rouge: A Tale of the Reign of Terror | Serialised | The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette | French |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Chevalier de Maison Rouge: A Tale of the Reign of Terror | Serialised | The Muswellbrook Chronicle | French |
| Dumas, Alexander | The Chevalier de Maison Rouge: A Tale of the Reign of Terror | Serialised | The YackandandahTimes | French |
| Eliot, George | Daniel Deronda | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Eliot, George | Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Eliot, George | The Lifted Veil | Serialised | Leader | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | A Daughter of the D’Urbervilles | Serialised | The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | A Laodicean | Serialised | The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | A Tower | Single issue | Leader | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | Alicia’s Diary | Serialised | The Week | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | Benighted Travellers | Single issue | South Australian Weekly Chronicle | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy in Chapters | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Serialised | Leader | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Melancholy Hussar | Serialised | Leader | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Pursuit of the Well Beloved. A Sketch of a Temperament | Serialised | Leader | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved, A Sketch of a Temperament | Serialised | South Australian Chronicle | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid | Serialised | Adelaide Observer | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid | Serialised | Evening Journal | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | Two on a Tower | Serialised | Leader | British |
| Hardy, Thomas | Two on a Tower | Serialised | South Australian Weekly Chronicle | British |
| Hugo, Victor | By Order of the King. A Romance of English History | Serialised | The Australasian | French |
| Hugo, Victor | Jenny | Serialised | Traralgon Record | French |
| Hugo, Victor | Ninety-Three | Serialised | Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate | French |
| Hugo, Victor | Ninety-Three: A Tale Founded on the French Revolution of 1793 | Serialised | The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser | French |
| Hugo, Victor | The Claude Gueux | Single issue | Port Augusta Dispatch and Flinders’ Advertiser | French |
| Hugo, Victor | The Story of the Gun | Serialised | North Melbourne Advertiser | French |
| James, Henry | Longstaff’s Marriage | Serialised | The Capricornian | American |
| James, Henry | The Ghostly Rental | Serialised | The Capricornian | American |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | My Wife and I | Serialised | The Newcastle Chronicle | American |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | The Minister’s Wooing. A Tale of New England | Serialised | The Age | American |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Trials of a Housekeeper | Single issue | The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser | American |
| Sue, Eugene | The Mysteries of Paris | Serialised | Geelong Advertiser and Squatters’ Advocate | French |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace | Denis Duval | Serialised | Avoca Mail | British |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace | The Newcomes | Serialised | Illustrated Sydney News | British |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace | The Snobs of England | Single issue | The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News | British |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace | The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan | Serialised | The Port Augusta Dispatch, Newcastle and Flinders Chronicle | British |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Avenging Skeleton | Serialised | Chronicle, South Yarra Gazette, Toorak Times and Malvern Standard | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Avenging Skeleton | Serialised | Mornington Standard | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Avenging Skeleton | Serialised | The Coburg Leader | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Avenging Skeleton | Serialised | The Prahran Telegraph | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Avenging Skeleton | Serialised | Warragul Guardian and Buln Buln and Narracan Shire Advocate | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Tell-Tale Skull | Serialised | Kyabram Union | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Tell-Tale Skull | Serialised | Mornington Standard | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Tell-Tale Skull | Serialised | The Coburg Leader | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Tell-Tale Skull | Serialised | The Prahran Telegraph | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Tell-Tale Skull | Serialised | Williamstown Chronicle | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Tell-Tale Skull: From the French of Gustave Toudouze | Serialised | Chronicle, South Yarra Gazette, Toorak Times and Malvern Standard | French |
| Toudouze, Gustave | The Tell-Tale Skull: From the French of Gustave Toudouze | Serialised | North Melbourne Gazette | French |
| Trollope, Anthony | Christmas at Kirkby Grange | Serialised | Australian Town and Country Journal | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Christmas at Kirkby Grange | Serialised | Empire | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Christmas at Thompson Hall | Serialised | Portland Guardian | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Christmas at Thompson Hall | 10,000+ words in a single issue | The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Christmas Day at Kirby Cottage | Serialised | Morning Bulletin | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Christmas Day at Kirby Cottage | Serialised | The Capricornian | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Christmas Day at Kirby Cottage | Serialised | The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. A Tale of Australian Bush Life | Serialised | The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | He Knew He Was Right | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Lady Anna | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Marian Fay. A Novel | Serialised | Illustrated Sydney News | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Phineas Finn, the Irish Member | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | The Belton Estate | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | The Eustace Diamonds | Serialised | The Australasian | British |
| Trollope, Anthony | Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices | Serialised | Burra Record | British |
| Trollope, Anthony, Esq. | The Penniless Millionaire | Single issue | Melbourne Punch | Unknown |
| Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich | A Fire at Sea | Single issue | Darling Downs Gazette | Russian |
| Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich | Photographs from Russian Life | Serialised | The Cornwall Chronicle | Russian |
| Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich | The Brigadier | Serialised | Leader | Russian |
| Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Serialised | Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser | British |
| Zola, Emile | Angeline | Single issue | Leader | French |
| Zola, Emile | Angeline | Single issue | The North Queensland Register | French |
| Zola, Emile | The Attack on the Mill | Serialised | Evening Journal | French |
| Zola, Emile | The Dream | Serialised | The West Australian | French |
| Zschokke, Heinrich | Prince George and the Watchman | Serialised | The West Australian Times | German |
| Zschokke, Heinrich | The Lost Leg | Single issue | Kilmore Free Press | German |
| Zschokke, Heinrich | The Prince and the Watchman: An Adventure on New year’s Eve | Serialised | Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express | German |
| Zschokke, Heinrich | The Watchman Prince: A New Year’s Story | Serialised | The Cornwall Chronicle | German |