Bush Studies

Bush Studies
Barbara Baynton
Paperback
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1 Oct 2021 AU
9781922473851
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Bush Studies, written during the 1890s, presents a bleak and uncompromising image of life in the Australian bush. These classic stories of pioneering Australia are introduced by Elizabeth Webby. These are not the stories of mates gathered around a fire, but of the dark loneliness of women. Not only are there fences to be built and a living to be coaxed from the land, but babies to be barn - or buried - and the dangers of profound isolation to be endured, as well as the cruelties, or plain disappointments, of men: She drew out the saw, spat on her hands, and with the axe began weakening the inclining side of the tree. Long and steadily and in secret the worm had been busy in the heart. Suddenly the axe blade sank softly, the tree' s wounded edges closed on it like a vice.
Barbara Baynton ( 4 June 1857 - 28 May 1929) was an Australian writer known primarily for her short stories about life in the bush. She published the collection Bush Studies (1902) and the novel Human Toll (1907), as well as writing for The Bulletin and The Sydney Morning Herald. She was a shrewd manager of her second husband' s estate, owning properties in Melbourne and London. She acquired the title Lady Headley from her third marriage to Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley, but never wrote under that name
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ISBN-13: 9781922473851
Published: 1 Oct 2021
Published In: Australia
Imprint: ETT Imprint
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Format: Paperback
Pages: 100

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