Bush Studies
(Paperback)
Available Formats
Paperback
Published: 29th August 2001
Paperback, First published in 1902 by Duckworth and Co.
Published: 1st May 2009
Paperback
Published: 26th September 2012
Publishing Details
Bush Studies
By (Author) Barbara Baynton
Text Publishing
Text Classics
26th September 2012
Australia
Classifications
General
Fiction
Short stories
823.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
108g
Description
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.
Reviews
'The terror Baynton evokes,' Helen Garner writes in her introduction to the book, 'is elemental, sexual, unabashedly female.' '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
Author Bio
Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) had her first short story published in the Bulletin in 1896. Her short stories were collected in Bush Studies and she published a novel, Human Toll.
