The city of sin, sweat & sorrow : Anthony Trollope, Rockhampton, 1871
- Bib ID:
- 6095211
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Printer:
- ([Rockhampton, Qld.] : Officina Athelstane)
- Description:
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- [Rockhampton, Qld. : Rockhampton Press], 2012
- 1 broadside : col. ill. : 71 x 51 cm.
- Biography/History:
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Although the description of Rockhampton as "the city of sin, sweat, and sorrow" is usually attributed to the English novelist Anthony Trollope, who visited Rockhampton in August 1871, it does not appear in Trollope's 24th August speech at the the Leichhardt Hotel in Rockhampton or his travel book, Australia and New Zealand (1873), in which Trollope made several negative comments about Rockhampton, including retelling the old joke about the inhabitants of a hot place who arrive in hell and request blankets. A reference to "the valley of sin, sweat, and sorrow" had previously appeared in Rockhampton Bulletin and Central Queensland Advertiser (Qld. : 1861-1871), 8 April 1871, p. 5, in conjunction with the visit of another dignitary. Shortly after Trollope's visit, the Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld. : 1871-1878) 6 Nov 1875, p. 2, referred to Rockhampton as "the city of sin, sweat, and sorrow" without mentioning Trollope, although the phrase later seems to have been firmly associated with him (see The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866-1939), 2 July 1887, p. 17).
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- Hand printed by Derek Lamb in letterpress with antique wood poster type on Magnani Mill paper using an 1887 Alexandra hand press.
- Limited edition of 35 numbered copies.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-61288452
- Library's copy is no. 3 of 35.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lamb, Derek, 1967-
- Also Titled:
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- City of sin, sweat and sorrow
- Sin, sweat & sorrow
- Sin, sweat and sorrow
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