Bush Studies

{{Short description|Book by Barbara Baynton}} {{Infobox book | italic title = Bush Studies | name = | image = Bush Studies.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = Title page for ''Bush Studies'' (1902) | author = Barbara Baynton | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = English | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = short stories | set_in = | published = | publisher = Duckworth | publisher2 = | pub_date = 1902 | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = 155 pp | awards = | isbn = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = }} {{wikisource|Bush_Studies}} '''''Bush Studies''''' is a short story collection by Barbara Baynton<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8291047 National Library of Australia - ''Bush Studies'' by Barbara Baynton]</ref> that presents Australian bush life in the early colonial period as dangerous and isolating for the women.<ref name="HCA">{{cite web |title=Publication summary - Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton |url=https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780207196423/bush-studies/ |website=HarperCollins Australia |publisher=HarperCollins Australia |access-date=15 April 2021 |location=A&R Classics |language=en-AU}}</ref>

==Analysis==

Baynton's short stories and novel were noted at the time of their publication,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Junius [pen name] |title=BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS, &c.: New Books |date=21 January 1903 |page=58 |work= The Australian Town and Country Journal |volume=LXVI |issue=1720 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71476985 |access-date=15 April 2021 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and since,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rodriguez |first1=Judith |title=Essay: ''Bush Studies'' |journal=Reading Australia |date=2014 |url=https://readingaustralia.com.au/essays/bush-studies/ |access-date=15 April 2021}}</ref> for their grim realism and depiction of female suffering.<ref name="Barrett">{{cite journal |last1=Barrett |first1=Susan |title=No Place for a woman? Barbara Baynton's ''Bush Studies'' |journal=Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la nouvelle |date=1 March 2003 |issue=40 |pages=85–96 | url=https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/293?lang=en |access-date=15 April 2021 |language=en |issn=1969-6108}}</ref> In contrast to other writers of "pioneer bush" narratives, this suffering is portrayed by Baynton as arising not only from the harsh environment, but from male attitudes and power. This represents an alternative view to the romanticism of the bush and "mateship" propagated through periodicals such the ''Bulletin'', and by bush balladeers such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson.<ref name="Barrett"/><ref name="NLA">{{cite web |last1=Thomas |first1=Jacki |last2=National Library of Australia |title=Lawson and Baynton: Different perspectives |website=About Australia |url=https://info.australia.gov.au/information-and-services/culture-and-arts/literature |publisher=Australian Government |access-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921155738/http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/henry-lawson |archive-date=21 September 2016 |date=1 October 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

''Bush Studies'' was first published in London in 1902, as Bayton was unable to find an Australian publisher.<ref name=AUbio>{{cite dictionary|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/baynton-barbara-jane-5162|title=Baynton, Barbara Jane (1857–1929)|dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography|year=1979|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University }}</ref>

==Contents== * "A Dreamer" * "Squeaker's Mate" * "Scrammy 'And" * "Billy Skywonkie" * "Bush Church" * "The Chosen Vessel"

==Other works (selected)== ===Novel=== * ''Human Toll'' (1907)

===Collections=== * ''Cobbers'' (1917)

===Individual works=== * ''Fragments: 1 Day-Birth'' (1899) - poem * ''A Dreamer'' (1902) - short story

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/pdf/p00031.pdf Full text - Sydney University SETIS - ''Bush Studies'' by Barbara Baynton] * {{librivox book | title=Bush Studies| author=Baynton}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060822144505/http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/humanities/exchange/quodlibet/vol1/downloads/Baynton.pdf Barbara Baynton: Liar or Truth-teller] * *{{cite journal|last=Steele|first=Kathleen|journal=Colloquy|title=Fear and Loathing in the Australian Bush: Gothic Landscapes in ''Bush Studies'' and ''Picnic at Hanging Rock''|issue=20|year=2010|publisher=Monash University|url=https://arts.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/1763896/steele.pdf|access-date=15 April 2021}} {{free access}}

Category:1902 short story collections Category:Australian short story collections