French Perceptions of the Colony of Victoria – Facts, Fiction and Euphoria

Author: COLIN THORNTON-SMITH
Explorations No 2 (Dec 1985): 14-25
https://doi.org/10.62586/NTVH2916

The author has identified over thirty French books on Australia, mostly published in the second half of the nineteenth century. He discusses the difficulty of establishing the genre to which each book belongs, as the borderlines between personal reminiscences or memoirs, fictionalised autobiography and pure fiction are difficult to draw.

Keywords: travel literature, reminiscences, personal accounts, fictionalised autobiography, fiction, nineteenth-century