The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste De Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia

What a fabulous way to be thrust into the mid-nineteenth century in such an enveloping way. Celeste de Chabrillan is one of the most complex and unique personages of the Victorian era, and the memoirs of her time between Melbourne and France are compellingly honest and give enormous insight into a woman's world.
She is brutally frank about everything - her racism, her marriage, her infamous... read more