Bush Studies

Baynton, Barbara ; With an Introduction by Elizabeth Webby and a Memoir by H. B. Gullett

ISBN 10: 020718948X / ISBN 13: 9780207189487

Published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney, Australia, 1995

About this Item

Trade paperback, 140 pages; immeasurably tiny traces of shelf wear, but essentially in as new unread condition.

Seller Inventory # 039419

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bush Studies
• Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, Australia
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020718948X
• ISBN 13: 9780207189487
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Thus.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Historical Fiction
  • Short Stories

About this title

Synopsis

Barbara Janet Ainsleigh Baynton, Lady Headley (1857- 1929) was an Australian writer, made famous for Bush Studies (1902) which was written in retaliation to Henry Lawson’s works. In 1880, she married Alexander Frater, the son of her employers. However, he ran off with a servant, Sarah Glover, in 1887, and Barbara moved to Sydney and commenced divorce proceedings. In 1890 she married Dr Thomas Baynton, a retired surgeon aged 70 years who had literary friends. A few years later she began contributing short stories to the Bulletin and six of these were published in 1902 in London under the title of Bush Studies. She was unable to find a publisher for them in Sydney. Her husband died in 1904 and left his entire estate to her. She invested in the stock market, bought and sold antiques, and collected black opals from Lightning Ridge. In 1907, her only novel, Human Toll, was published, and in 1917 Cobbers, a reprint of Bush Studies with two additional stories, appeared. During World War I she lived in England and in 1921 she married her third husband Baron Headley.

About the Author

Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) was born at Scone, NSW. She began contributing short stories to the Bulletin in the 1890s and six of these were published in 1902 in London by Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd under the title of Bush Studies. Her only novel, Human Toll, was published in 1907.