Barbara Baynton, Squeaker’s mate (Review)
Presumed public domain, via Wikipedia My last post was about this year’s Meanjin Tournament of Books which is pitting short stories against each other. One of the short stories is Barbara Baynton‘s...
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I’m blaming author and blogger Karen Lee Thompson again for this post, because she wrote a wonderful comment on my post on Barbara Baynton‘s short story “Squeaker’s mate”, and I’m going to quote it...
View ArticleBarbara Baynton, Scrammy ‘and (Review)
Presumed Public Domain: via Wikipedia Back in November, Trevor at Mookse and the Gripes, decided that rather than write a single review of Alice Munro’s latest collection of short stories, Dear life,...
View ArticleBarbara Baynton, A dreamer (Review)
Presumed Public Domain: via Wikipedia Finally, having reviewed three stories in Barbara Baynton’s collection Bush studies, I start at the beginning with the story “A dreamer”. This story is a little...
View ArticleBarbara Baynton, Billy Skywonkie (Review)
Well, I must say that “Billy Skywonkie”, my fifth* story from Barbara Baynton’s Bush studies, fair near defeated me, so I was rather relieved to read in Susan Sheridan’s introduction that “in this...
View ArticleBarbara Baynton, Bush church (Review)
“Bush church” is my sixth and last* story from Barbara Baynton’s Bush studies, and it presented a rather pleasant change in tone from most of the others in the book. I’m sorry in a way that I read...
View ArticleMonday musings on Australian literature: Barbara Baynton
Baynton 1892 (Presumed Public Domain, via Wikipedia) It’s a while since I’ve devoted a Monday Musings to an individual author – my last being, I think, Jessica Anderson back in February 2012 – and so I...
View ArticleMonday musings on Australian literature: Australian writers in England, 1911
Baynton 1892 (Presumed Public Domain, via Wikipedia) I’ve devoted a few Monday Musings recently to Australian writers in the first few decades of the twentieth century. I expect to do a few more in...
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