AustLit

English novelist Anthony Trollope arrived in Australia in July 1871 to visit his son Frederic, who was the proprietor of a station near Grenfell, New South Wales. On the voyage out Trollope wrote a novel, Lady Anna (1874), which was serialised in the Australasian from May 1873. He visited all the Australian colonies before travelling on to New Zealand. His experiences were described in a series of letters for the London Daily Telegraph and later in Australia and New Zealand (1873). The latter was republished as Australia by University of Queensland Press in 1967. He made a second, briefer, visit to Australia in 1875; his letters from that journey, published in the Liverpool Mercury, were reprinted in The Tireless Traveller (1941). Trollope wrote two novels with a significant Australian content, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874) and John Caldigate (1879). Several Trollope novels were serialised in Australian newspapers and periodicals. (Source: Oxford Companion to Australian Literature)