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  • Bush Studies

    Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton is a powerful and unflinching collection of short stories that portrays the harsh realities of life in the Australian outback. Known for its stark realism and psychological intensity, the work presents a vivid and often unsettling depiction of isolation, survival, and human vulnerability in an unforgiving landscape. Set against the rugged and often brutal ... Read more

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    Wonder Of Women - The Weird Stories - Volume 1

    Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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  • Squeaker's Mate: Penguin Special

    Squeaker, a selector, is slowly clearing his piece of the Australian bush. However, lazy and shiftless, he leaves most of the work to his uncomplaining and hardworking mate. When she is crushed under a falling yellow gum, Squeaker responds only with selfish impatience. Taught to endlessly endure by her harsh surroundings, Squeaker's mate carries the burden of her injury quietly, with only her old ... Read more

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  • Bush Studies And Human Toll : Timeless Story

    Series series Classic Novels
    Bush Studies is the timeless short stories, published in 1902 and Human Toll is the timeless novel, published in 1907, written by Barbara Baynton an Australian writer.“Boshy, coming out to harangue the chained dog, heard the tintin jangling of their billies and pannikins in their hasty, unorganized flight. The gins, burdened with pickaninnies and camp-gear, were whimpering well in the rear, but ... Read more

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  • Bush Studies

    Bush Studies, written during the 1890s, presents a bleak and uncompromising image of life in the Australian bush. 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 born - or buried - and the dangers of profound isolation to be endured, as well as the ... Read more

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  • Bush Studies

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    In these stark bush tales, storm, silence, and hard labor expose the raw edge of survival. A woman returns alone through a violent night to her mother's remote home, carrying memory, fear, and an unborn child, only to find the familiar track turned strange and the welcome she seeks shadowed by uncanny dread. Elsewhere, Squeaker's mate, a stoic bush woman who has long carried the work of the place, ... Read more

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  • Bush Studies

    Series series Australian Classics Library
    Bush Studies (1902) is a collection of short stories that explore the dark side of the Australian bush experience: loneliness, isolation and danger. The stories, often depicting female suffering, are grimly realistic, in contrast to the masculine romantic notions of the outback as represented by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. All six stories in Bush Studies deal with the great themes of birth ... Read more

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  • Bush Studies

    Barbara Baynton's "Bush Studies" is a seminal collection of short stories that offers a stark portrayal of life in the Australian bush during the late 19th century. Written with a raw and unflinching literary style, Baynton's narratives challenge the romantic notions often associated with rural Australia. Her vivid descriptions and masterful command of language transport readers into a world ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Bush Studies

    Narrated by Lisa Giles ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    Bush Studies is a collection of six short stories by the enigmatic Australian author, Barbara Baynton (1857–1929). Embedded in Baynton’s merciless, rugged vistas, these stories highlight the tragedy, harshness and humor of nineteenth century Australian bush life—particularly from the perspective of the women involved.Haunting and evocative, the nuanced tones of Lisa Giles brings Baynton’s stories ... Read more

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  • Bush Studies

    Exploring the harsh realities of the Australian outback through pioneering tales of hardship and resilience

    In "Bush Studies," Barbara Baynton delves into the intricacies of life in the Australian bush, blending elements of realism with a raw, evocative narrative style. This collection of short stories explores the harsh realities faced by bushwomen, illuminating their struggles against isolation, societal expectations, and the oppressive nature of frontier life. Baynton's skillful use of vivid imagery ... Read more

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  • Human Toll

    Human Toll commences with a little girl, variously Lovey, Ursie and Ursula, already motherless, coming to terms with the death of her father. She is on a remote, semi arid sheep property in the care of her father’s mate Boshy and an Aboriginal couple Nungi and Queeby. Boshy wishes to continue as the girl’s guardian but their nearest neighbour – yes, “a day’s ride away” – Cameron and his daughter ... Read more

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  • Bush Studies

    "Bush Studies" is a novel written and published by the Australian writer Barbara Baynton in 1902. This work describes and represents, through a meticulous and ferocious social criticism, the point of view and the suffering of women in the society of the time. The author describes above all the life of women in the woods, which remain isolated when husbands, for example, go elsewhere in search of ... Read more

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