The Hidden Civilization of North Queensland—Mrs Campbell Praed's Fugitive Anne

Abstract

Mrs Rosa Caroline Campell Praed was the author of some 45 novels, about 20 of which relate to Australia. She was very successful as a writer in her time, particularly through the circulating-library system. Today, however, her name hardly survives except within the cramped space of literary histories. Even in her most fanciful works, she often draws on a basis of personal experience and reflects actual interests of her readers. Her novels, Policy and Passion, 1881, Outlaw and Lawmaker, 1893, and Nulma,1897, are cited as valuable for their depiction of certain aspects of political and social life in nineteenthcentury Queensland.