Barbara Baynton (Portable Australian authors) - Hardcover

Baynton, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0702213772 ISBN 13: 9780702213779

Publisher: University of Queensland Press, 1980

Synopsis

Although little known until recently, Barbara Baynton is now recognized as one of Australia's major writers. She began writing in the 1890s, and on bush themes, but her work differs from that of her contemporary, Henry Lawson. Baynton's stories often involve the horrific and the macabre, and her pictures of bush women express emotional vehemence and a sense of outrage. This comprehensive volume presents Baynton's revised text of the stories from her brilliant collection Bush Studies, together with three later stories and the full text of her novel Human Toll - reprinted for the first time. Human Toll in parts approaches the intensity of her best short stories, and it is also concerned with the vulnerability of women, the greed of men, the vapidity of religion, and the vulgarity and ugliness of social life in the Australian bush town. In addition, there are previously uncollected poems and articles as well as an interview - all of which indicate Baynton's disconcertingly independent viewpoint and her social awareness. The wide-ranging biographical and critical introduction reveals interesting new information about Baynton, whose remarkable life began in the bush as the daughter of a carpenter and ended in fashionable London society. The Portable Australian Authors series provides carefully selected volumes introducing major Australian writers and movements. For the first time, readers and students have access to collections of works which contain the full range of the writer's achievements.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702213772
• ISBN 13: 9780702213779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340