Jeanne Allen, Patricia Clancy

Broschiertes Buch

The French Consul's Wife

Memoirs of Céleste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia

Beschreibung

A former Parisian courtesan, bare-back-rider and polka dancer, Celeste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne when she arrived in 1854 as the Frenc Consul's wife. Her vivid first-hand memories of years spent in the diplomatic and government house circles and on the goldfields reveal her as a woman of great energyt and will.

Autor

Dr Patricia Clancy was for many years a senior lecturer in the French Department of the University of Melbourne. She is a winner of the Victorian Premier's Award for Literary Translation. Jeanne Allen taught French at La Trobe and Melbourne universities and has published on the French in colonial Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melbourne University
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780522850666
• ISBN-10: 0522850669
• Artikelnr.: 21431061