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Bush Studies: Text Classics
Published 26 September 2012
ISBN 9781921961779
Format EBook
Extent 240pp

Bush Studies: Text Classics

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26 Sept 2012
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The terror Baynton evokes,' Helen Garner writes, 'is elemental, sexual, unabashedly female.’

Introduced by Helen Garner.

Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism—for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness.

Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.

The stories:

A Dreamer

Squeaker's Mate

Scrammy 'And

Billy Skywonkie

Bush Church

The Chosen Vessel

'So precise, so complete, with such insight into detail and such force of statement, it ranks with the masterpieces of realism in any language.' Bulletin
Published 26 September 2012
ISBN 9781921961779
Format EBook
Extent 240pp
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Barbara Baynton

Barbara Baynton was born in Scone, New South Wales. In the 1890s Baynton began writing short stories, poetry and articles for the Bulletin. Her first tale, 'The Tramp', was published in 1896. After failing to find an Australian publisher for her collection of short stories, she visited London and in 1902 Duckworth published Bush Studies. Human Toll, a novel, appeared in 1907. A successful businesswoman and renowned socialite, Baynton spent her later years in Melbourne, dying in 1929.
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