Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, variousfamous writers made the long trip to Australia. They came for science, to seefamily, for adventure and to give lectures, and all had very differentresponses to this country. All went away and wrote about Australia, in novelsand stories, poems and essays, letters and articles, and they helped to formimpressions of this country around the world.
Susannah Fullerton, OAM, FRSN, author, literary lecturerand tour leader, will tell the fascinating tales of 11 authors who visited ourshores, showing what they did, where they went, what we thought of them andwhat they thought of us, and how the visits influenced what they wrote.
Illustrated lecture.
