LITERATURE Ballarat played a central part in much of the goldfields literature of the second half of the nineteenth century. Some examples, including the many books and articles about Eureka, are: J.A. Patterson, The Gold Fields of Victoria in 1862 (1862) W.H. Thomas, Life at the Gold Mines of Ballarat (1885) Raffaello Carboni, The Eureka Stockade (1855) The most complete recent histories of Ballarat are by Weston Bate - Lucky City (1978) and Life after Gold (1993) (publisher Melbourne University Press). Both are long out of print, but it might be possible to find a copy in second hand bookshops. Most good libraries will have a copy. The American author Mark Twain visited Ballarat as part of his 1895 world lecture tour, and wrote about the city and its people in his Following the Equator : A Journey around the World (published also in 1897 as More Tramps Abroad) Ballarat and events on the diggings play a significant part in many fictional works. Examples include: Rolf Boldrewood, Nevermore (1892) Henry Handel (Ethel) Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (I930) Eric Lambert, Ballarat (1962). Other writers associated with Ballarat include: Norman Lindsay, who based his Redheap trilogy on the town of Creswick, near Ballarat, where he was born in 1879. The poet Adam Lindsay Gordon leased a livery stable behind Craig's Hotel, where today there are memorial plaques to him in the lobby and bistro.