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... Barbara Baynton in Bush Studies , and my thoughts turned back to the women in those Texas dug - outs . They were Baynton's contemporaries on the opposite side of the globe , and I wondered how much their lives might have had in common ...
... Barbara Baynton in Bush Studies , and my thoughts turned back to the women in those Texas dug - outs . They were Baynton's contemporaries on the opposite side of the globe , and I wondered how much their lives might have had in common ...
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... Barbara Baynton's , but perhaps that should come as no surprise . After all , I realized when I had read Bush Studies , the popular stories of the American frontier and of the Australian bush do not encourage a reader to ask realistic ...
... Barbara Baynton's , but perhaps that should come as no surprise . After all , I realized when I had read Bush Studies , the popular stories of the American frontier and of the Australian bush do not encourage a reader to ask realistic ...
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... Barbara Baynton , but had missed ' the insight which comes from truth when I went to the published fiction of her female contemporaries with their voices muffled by literary conven- tions . Those conventions celebrate life's ...
... Barbara Baynton , but had missed ' the insight which comes from truth when I went to the published fiction of her female contemporaries with their voices muffled by literary conven- tions . Those conventions celebrate life's ...
Contents
Anna Cook and Ellen Moger | 19 |
Louisa Clifton | 39 |
Annie Baxter | 86 |
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