in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 31 December 1885, after a very brief illness. In 1890, Sala married a second wife, Bessie Stannard, who was the sister-in-law of writer John Strange Winter [Henrietta Vaughan Stannard]. Quotations "In the course of life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly, by words, tones, gestures, looks, that affection is won and preserved" "A future is always a fairyland to the young." "And for how long will a People suffer the mad tyranny of a Ruler, who outrages their Laws, who strangles their Liberties, who fleeces and squeezes and tramples upon them" (The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous). "There is a mighty quantity of Sand and good store of Mud at Ostend, and a very comforting smell of fish." (The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous) "Not only to say the right thing, at the right place, but far more difficult to leave unsaid, the wrong thing, at the tempting moment!" "Melbourne the Marvellous" commonly misquoted or shortened today as "Marvellous Melbourne." Bibliography A Journey Due North, Being Notes of a Residence in Russia (1858) The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, In Three Volumes (1863) Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Quite Alone (1864). Completed by A.H. Duff. Originally appeared in All The Year Round 1864-65. Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 My Diary in America in the Midst of War (1865) Vol. I Vol. II A Trip to Barbary by a Roundabout Route (1866) Notes and sketches of the Paris exhibition (1868) Paris Herself Again in 1878-9 (1880) Vol. I Vol. II America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Lake Michigan to the Pacific (1882) The Mysteries of Verbena House (1882) "The LAND of the GOLDEN FLEECE, George Augustus SALA in Australia and New Zealand in 1885", Edited by Robert DINGLEY, Canberra, Mulini Press, 1995. Things I have seen and people I have known (1894) (in USA The life and adventures of George Augustus Sala (1895)) Vol. I Vol. II (collected in) American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes, ed. Molly O'Neill (Library of America, 2007) Twice round the clock, or, The hours of the day and night in London References Evening Post (New York (NY)), October 23, 1867, page 2, Image 2, NYS HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS External links Letters of George Augustus Sala to Edmund Yates – Victorian Fiction Research Guide Archival