Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing
Edinburgh born Robert McMillan (1848?-1929) was a journalist, editor and author. Writing under the pseudonym the "Globe Trotter," Australian Gossip and Story presents Australian gossip in a journalistic manner and was originally printed in the Sydney Stock and Station Journal. McMillan noted that the stories presented were not literary works, instead they were brief entertaining sketches of life in the colonies. They include anecdotes of Sir Henry Parkes' house, a journey to the Blue Mountains, the "land question," reminiscences of courting, and a commentary on Australian progress. The work focussed chiefly on society and manners, including a section on style at the stations, oysters, and jewellery. McMillan also wrote There and Back (1903); No Breakfast (1905); Voyage of the ‘Monsoon’ (1909); The Origin of the World (1913) and Story of a Microscope (1914).
