The French consul's wife : memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in gold-rush Australia / translation, with introduction and notes, by Patricia Clancy and Jeanne Allen of Un deuil au bout du monde (1877)
- Bib ID:
- 311028
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chabrillan, Celeste Venard de, comtesse, 1824-1909
- Uniform Title:
- Deuil au bout du monde. English
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- Description:
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- Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1998
- 304 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0522847757
- Series:
- Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ; no. 18.
- Summary:
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"A former Parisian courtesan, circus performer and dancer, Celeste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne society when she arrived in 1854 as the wife of the French Consul. These memoirs give a vivid first-hand account of the two-and-a-half years she spent in gold-rush Victoria."--BOOK JACKET. "Celeste's arrival in Melbourne was preceded by the publication of her earlier memoirs describing her illegitimate birth, miserable adolescence and celebrity career as courtesan, bare-back rider and polka dancer. She had believed the book would never reach Australia but it went on sale just before she arrived. As a result she was dubbed the consul's 'harlot spouse' and ostracised by polite society."--BOOK JACKET.
"Despite this, Celeste did not avoid the public gaze and continued to employ her literary talents. These memoirs are of a life spent in the village of St. Kilda, the diplomatic and Government House circle and the Ballarat gold fields. The exotic dancer Lola Montez, the actor/entrepreneur George Coppin and the pioneer photographer Antoine Fauchery are among the historical figures portrayed by a writer who is revealed as a woman of great energy and wilful temperament."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography.
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