Brief Encounters
Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939
$31.50
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2009
Summary
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, countless distinguished writers made the long and arduous voyage across the seas to Australia. They came to give lecture tours and make money; to sort out difficult children sent here to be out of the way; for health, for science; to escape demanding spouses back home; or simply to satisfy a sense of adventure.
In 1890, for example, Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny arrived at Circular Quay after a dramatic sea voyage only to be re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405039505 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1405039507 |
| Author: | Susannah Fullerton |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Picador Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 158mm x 238mm |
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Susannah Fullerton
Susannah Fullerton is one of Australia’s leading authorities on 19th and early-20th century writers. She is a regular lecturer on the NSW speakers circuit, giving talks on authors such as the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys, the Mitfords, and Rudyard Kipling.
Each year, she leads literary tours to the UK, which are booked up three years in advance. Susannah is also the President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia.
She has appeared on television and radio on numerous occasions and has presented papers at Jane Austen conferences and symposiums in Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, England, Fiji, Canada, and America.
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