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  1. ‘Buried in the Deep’, Chambers’s Journal, 4 Feb-25 Feb 1865. [Unsigned. Probably Mrs Hoey’s first published work of fiction. A sensational novella in four chapters.]
  2. ’57 Chandos Street, S.W.’, Chambers’sJournal, 16-23 Sep 1865. [Unsigned. A half-hearted sensation story, in two parts.]
  3. ‘A Shot in the Scrub’, Chambers’s Journal, 19-26 Jan 1867. [Unsigned. A rather unconvincing tale of bushrangers in Tasmania; in two parts.]
  4. ”The Heiress of Moate’, Temple Bar, 19 (Mar 1867):493-519. L’By the Author of the “Iron Casket”.’ Signed at end: ‘Frances Cashel Hoey.’ Presumably ’The Iron Casket’ was a short story or novella: I have not found it.]
  5. ’The Mystery of Pegwell Place’, Chambers’sJournal, 4-25 Apr 18 68. [Unsigned. Another mildly sensational novella; in four parts (but five chapters).]
  6. ’The Brown Lady’, Belgravia, 8(Mar-Apr 1869): 53-69, 197-219. C’By Mrs. Cashel Hoey, Author of “A House of Cards,” “The Iron Casket,” etc. ’ ]
  7. ’Roberts’s Capital Hit’, Chambers’s Journal, 3-17 July 1869. [[Unsigned. In three parts.]
  8. ’A Modern Vendetta’, Temple Bar, 30(Nov 1870): 471-489). [Unsigned.]
  9. Buried in the Deep, and Other Tales [? ]: [?Smith and Son], [?187l]. [Not sighted. Not in BM Cat. A Letter from W. & R. Chambers to FCH, dated 8 June 18 71, gave Smith and Son permission to republish stories which had previously appeared in Chambers’s Journal (W. £ R. Chambers papers, ‘Letter Book 1868-83’, p.153). Smith may have been a Dublin or provincial publisher.]
  10. New ed. London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. [Not sighted. Not in BM Cat. The book is listed in ECB and was reviewed in the Spectator, 8 Feb 1873, p.184. The new ed., but not any first ed., is mentioned among FCH’s books in her entry in Who Was Who. The title story was reprinted from Chambers’s Journal (see item 37, above). Two other stories named in the Spectator review are ‘A Shot in the Scrub’ (also rpt. from Chambers’s Journal) and ‘Dulcie’s Delusion’.]
  11. ‘The Story of Burton’s Loan’, Chambers’sJournal, 14-21 Feb 1874. [Unsigned. In two parts.]
  12. No Sign,/ and Other Tales./ By/ Mrs. Cashel Hoey,/ Author of/ ‘The Blossoming of an Aloe,’ ‘A Golden Sorrow,’ etc.// ’The Country House Library. No. 5.’ 1 vol. London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1876]. [Dedicated to Mrs John Aloysius Blake. Contents: ’Only an Episode’ (rpt. from New Quarterly Magazine, 4-, Apr 1875); ’Dark Cybel’ (rpt. from ibid, 4-, July 1875); ’No Sign’ (rpt. from ibid, 5,Oct 1875).]
  13. ’Kate Cronin’s Dowry’, New QuarterlyMagazine, 7(Jan 1877):472-501. [Signed.]
  14. ———. N.Y. : Harper & Bros., 1877. [Not sighted. Listed in L of C Cat.]
  15. ’From the Cliff’s Edge’, All the Year Round, Extra Summer Number, 2 July 1877, pp.36-45 [Signed.]
  16. ‘Ralph Craven’s Silver Whistle’, in Wit andPleasure: Seven Tales by Seven Authors. 1 vol. Seven illustrations. London: Virtue, 1877, pp.79-112. [Signed. This story, a semi-historical romance, is set in Ireland.]
  17. ’Esau’s Choice’, New Quarterly Magazine, 9 (Jan 1878):299-323. [Signed.]
  18. ’Proctor’s Case’, All the Year Round, Extra Summer Number, 1 July 1878, pp.52-64. [Signed.]
  19. ’Pompey’s Peril’. London: Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection, [?1883]. [Not sighted. Reviewed in the Spectator, 56 (3 Feb 1883):158-9, where it is described as having been ’written for the Zoophilist’.]
  20. ’A Case of Delusion’, All the Year Round, Extra Summer Number, 17 June 1889, pp.1-12 [Signed.]
  21. ‘The Damaris Cot’, in In a Good Cause; a Collection of Stories. [Souvenir of a performance given on Thurs, 3 May 1900, in aid of Mr Punch’s fund for the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. Not sighted.]