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Trollope's only Australian novel, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil deals with the problems facing a young sheepfarmer, or 'squatter' (modelled after Trollope's son Frederic) in outback Australia. Using conventions of the Christmas story established by Dickens in the late 1840s, the novel shows Harry Heathcote thwarting the envious ex-convict neighbors who harbor his disgruntled former employees and who attempt to set fire to his pastures. Trollope draws heavily on his knowledge of the social and economic conditions of bush life acquired during a year-long visit to Australia in 1871-2.
A vivacious novel, it exhibits the hardened realities of social and economic conditions of Australia. It is the story of a young sheep-farmer who faces problems deliberately designed by his neighbours. Trollope has portrayed the pastoral beauty with cohesive language and luminous imagery that casts a tenacious spell of bucolic life on the reader. Engrossing!
Just a fortnight before Christmas 1871 a young man twenty-four years of age returned home to his dinner about eight o'clock in the evening.
Reproduction of the original: Digby Heathcote by W.H.G Kingston