On 27 July 1871, Anthony Trollope arrived in Melbourne, Australia on board the S.S. Great Britain, with his wife Rose. After a few days, he headed for Queensland, commencing a grand tour of the Australian colonies. Trollope made the trip to visit his younger son, Frederic, a sheep farmer in New South Wales, but before his departure, the author cannily signed a contract with the publisher Chapman and Hall for a travel book. As he travelled and wrote, Trollope dispatched a number of letters to England to be published in the London Daily Telegraph under the pseudonym “Antipodean”. These epistolary reports reached a wide audience, as they were reproduced in other domestic newspapers along with colonial publications, such as The Queenslanders and The Sydney Morning Herald. The pieces were later folded together into Australia and...
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Citation: Tang, Ge. "Australia and New Zealand". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 September 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6474, accessed 09 June 2026.]
