A Love Story is an 1841 novel by William Harvey Christie, published under the pseudonym 'A Bushman.' In its preface, a solitary author in the bush explains his motives for writing. This love story offers a warm glimpse into a nineteenth-century voice of feeling and reflection.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
A Love Story by A Bushman. Vol. I. "My thoughts, like swallows, skim the main, And bear my spirit back again Over the earth, and through the air, A wild bird and a wanderer." 1841. To Lady Gipps This Work Is Respectfully Inscribed, By A Grateful Friend. Preface. The author of these pages considered that a lengthened explanation might be necessary to account for the present work. He had therefore, at some length, detailed the motives that influenced him in its composition. He had shown that as a solitary companionless bushman, it had been a pleasure to him in his lone evenings "To create, and in creating live A being more intense." He had expatiated on the love he bears his adopted
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