Bibliography of non-indigenous literary writings on the Pacific

American adventurer disappointed in love picks up teenage fiancee in Apia. Sarah is
a white orphan but adopted and trained as taupo by Samoan chiefs (thus avoiding problems
<strong>of</strong> miscegenation but allowing for the romance <strong>of</strong> taming the unruly passions <strong>of</strong> a young
savage beauty). The story is bracketed by the tragedy <strong>of</strong> Dierdre (the age difference) and the
Pygmalion idea <strong>of</strong> raising a woman in one's own image.
There is a young rival for Sarah's love, young, passionate and Nordic (despite her
upbringing Sarah's 'blood' inclines her to despise dusky complexions) who is perfunctorily
despatched until he can reappear at a later climactic moment. The couple move to New
Gaboon to live beyond the reach <strong>of</strong> law and civilisation (very like the New Hebrides, only
there is a German presence plotting to take possession <strong>of</strong> the place in very sneaky ways).
Slavery is not questioned, only unnecessary brutality, and Preston Lane as a 'natural leader
<strong>of</strong> men' from a Southern slaving family runs a pr<strong>of</strong>itable plantation under the American flag.
The boyfriend turns up (just as perfunctorily) to save Sarah from abduction into savagery, but
turns out to be a cad, a former associate <strong>of</strong> Bully Hayes, and a German. He marries Sarah for
her property gifted her by Lane, is betrayed by a Greek during his blackbirding expedition and
beheaded by natives. Sarah despatches the Greek with the assistance <strong>of</strong> the ubiquitous loyal
servant and is overhauled by a missionary vigilante (akin to Chalmers) who releases her
cargo and tames her spirit by force <strong>of</strong> personality. He takes her back to New Gaboon,
reclaims her property on a legal technicality and restores her to Preston Lane.
Characters function according to racial type (even Lane, the American, is said to have
'racial' virtues <strong>of</strong> enterprise distinguishing him from the British, who <strong>of</strong> course differ from
arrogant and unscrupulous Germans) and the author puts great store by passion, power and
charisma, but demands that her women be reduced to submission as a sign <strong>of</strong> their
civilisation.
"Murder in Paradise" is a clumsy, dated attempt at an Agatha Christie-type tale. Half
a dozen people (film-star, colonial magistrate, hanger-on to aristocracy, old maid, young
innocent, fortune hunter) <strong>of</strong>floaded onto a plantation island <strong>of</strong>f the coast <strong>of</strong> Papua by a soonto-sink
ship try to solve the deaths <strong>of</strong> two <strong>of</strong> their number amid suspicions <strong>of</strong> native
skulduggery.
@ Grimshaw, Beatrice, The Star in the Dust, London: Cassell, ^1930, %IRE/AUS #PAC *fic
Grimshaw, Beatrice, The Terrible Island, New York: Macmillan, 1920 (PNG)
@Grimshaw, Beatrice, Vaiti <strong>of</strong> the Islands, London: Newnes, ^1907, %IRE #POL (Apia,
Tahiti, Aitutaki) *Fic Fryer V33
@Grimshaw, Beatrice, The Valley <strong>of</strong> Never come Back and other Stories, London: Hurst &
Blackett, 192? 2nd edition %IRE #?? *Stories Fryer V35
@Grimshaw, Beatrice, Victorian Family Robinson: a Novel, London: Cassell, ^1934, %IRE
#PAC (Vainamu) *Fic (Bully Hayes) Fryer V5
Grimshaw, Beatrice, When the Red gods Call, London: Mills & Boon, 1911 (PNG)
Wreck <strong>of</strong> the Redwing
White Savage Simon, Sydney: NSW Bookstall
@Grivel, Guillaume, L'isle inconnu, ou mémoires du chevalier des Gastinas, Paris: Moutand,
^1783-87, 6vol., %FR #POL *Fic
"une robinsonade doublée d'une utopia" loosely based on Bougainville; first
example <strong>of</strong> family shipwreck
@Guy, Maurice, So Wild the Wind (Le Souffle de l,'Alizé), London: Jonathan Cape,
^1960/1959 %FR? #New Hebrides *Fic search
@Hagen, Victor V. W. & Hawkins, Quail, Treasure <strong>of</strong> the Tortoise Islands, London: Collins,
^1942?, %UK? #Galapagos *Fic juv serend210/779
@Hall, J.Norman, The Far Lands , London: Faber, 1951 / Boston: Little, Brown, ^l950 %US
#Tonga *Fic Hist search ser 197/593