Visitors with “an unusual charm”: French Celebrities at the Australia Hotel, 1891–1932

Author: MARIE AND JOHN RAMSLAND
Explorations No 34 (Jun 2003): 3-12
https://doi.org/10.62586/PWQO1219

The authors, both of the University of Newcastle, explore the French associations of the now-defunct Hotel Australia in Castlereagh Street in Sydney, focusing on its foundation late in the nineteenth century and its status as the pre-eminent destination for sophisticated European travellers into the early decades of the twentieth.

Keywords: Hotel Australia, Sarah Bernhardt, Castlereagh Street