Anthony Trollope, Australia and New Zealand

Ge Tang (University of Melbourne)

Ed. by Grace Moore, University of Otago
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1873

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Guidebooks / Travel writing

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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…

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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 23 April 2024.]

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