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, Barbara Baynton's short-story col...
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. Howeve...