The Australian works of Celeste de Chabrillan as first-hand accounts of life in the 1850s
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Allen, Jeanne
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2018
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Céleste de Chabrillan spent two and a half years in Victoria during the 1850s gold rush. Although little enamoured of Australia, she used the country as the backdrop for her memoirs and the setting for novels and plays. previously a dancer, actress, bare-back horse-rider and well-known Parisian courtesan, Céleste had forsaken her career to accompany her new husband, Count Lionel de Chabrillan, when he took up a diplomatic position in Melbourne. finding herself ostracised by polite society, Céleste questioning how reliable they are as first-hand accounts of Australian colonial life.Céleste de Chabrillan spent two and a half years in Victoria during the 1850s gold rush. Although little enamoured of Australia, she used the country as the backdrop for her memoirs and the setting for novels and plays. previously a dancer, actress, bare-back horse-rider and well-known Parisian courtesan, Céleste had forsaken her career to accompany her new husband, Count Lionel de Chabrillan, when he took up a diplomatic position in Melbourne. finding herself ostracised by polite society, Céleste questioning how reliable they are as first-hand accounts of Australian colonial life.
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Journal Title
QHistory : The Journal of the Queensland history Teachers' Association
Volume
2018
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© 2018 Queensland History Teachers Association. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
Subject
Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)
Ballarat
Céleste de Chabrillan
Colonial Australia
French
Gold rush
Melbourne