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| Full Title | French Consul\'s Wife Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillan in Gold-rush Australia |
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| Author(s) | Jeanne Allen, Patricia Clancy |
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| ISBN | 9780522863697, 9780522850666 |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Publishing |
| Format | PDF and EPUB |
‘What a subject for a film, but not, please, Meryl Streep … Together with Dr Patricia Clancy (Melbourne University) and Jeanne Allen’s (La Trobe University) elegant translation and able notes, the memoirs make for a piquant, informative, variegated and often startling read … Miegunyah Press you’ve done it again.’ (Derek Whitelock, Weekend Australian) A former Parisian courtesan, circus performer and dancer, C�leste de Chabrillan scandalised Melbourne society when she arrived in 1854 as the wife of the French Consul. These memoirs give a vivid firsthand account of the two-and-a-half years she spent in gold-rush Victoria. C�leste’s arrival in Melbourne was preceded by the publication of her memoirs describing her illegitimate birth, miserable adolescence and celebrity career as a courtesan, bareback rider and polka dancer. As a result she was dubbed the consul’s ‘harlot spouse’ and ostracised by society. Despite this, C�leste did not avoid the public gaze and continued to employ her literary talents. Her memoirs are of a life spent in the village of St Kilda, the diplomatic and government house circle and the Ballarat gold fields. Her descriptions of a public hanging, Governor Hotham’s ‘beer ball’ and her own Ball for the Victims of Crimea reveal her as a woman of great energy and wilful temperament.
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