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 …
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Citation: Tang, Ge. "Australia and New Zealand". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 September 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6474, accessed 24 November 2024.]
