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Issue Details: First known date: 1902... 1902 Squeaker's Mate
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form y separately published work icon Squeaker's Mate Max B. Richards , 1973 (Manuscript version)x401294 Z1060208 1973 single work film/TV Squeaker's Mate is based on Barbara Baynton's short story of the same name, first published in Bush Studies (a selection of nightmarish tales that reflect bush life as through a distorting mirror). The story is set in Gippsland in 1880 and concerns a woman who, after being disabled in a logging accident, is cruelly discarded by the man with whom she shares a primitive outback farm.

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    y separately published work icon Bush Studies Barbara Baynton , London : Duckworth , 1902 Z820571 1902 selected work short story (taught in 12 units)

    '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 collection presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)

         London : Duckworth , 1902     pg. 15-43
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    y separately published work icon A Century of Australian Short Stories Cecil Hadgraft (editor), R. B. J. Wilson (editor), Melbourne : Heinemann , 1963 Z577475 1963 anthology short story Melbourne : Heinemann , 1963 pg. 72-85
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    y separately published work icon Bush Studies Barbara Baynton , London : Duckworth , 1902 Z820571 1902 selected work short story (taught in 12 units)

    '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 collection presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)

         Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1965     pg. 54-71
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Australian Short Stories Harry Payne Heseltine (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1976 Z333518 1976 anthology short story Ringwood : Penguin , 1976 pg. 63-77
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    y separately published work icon Barbara Baynton Barbara Baynton , Sally Krimmer (editor), Alan Lawson (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1980 Z181654 1980 selected work novel poetry short story criticism correspondence biography St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1980 pg. 11-26
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    y separately published work icon My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years Leonie Kramer (editor), Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 Z219820 1985 anthology poetry short story Sydney : Lansdowne , 1985 pg. 437-448
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing Dale Spender (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1988 Z438138 1988 anthology drama extract short story Ringwood : Penguin , 1988 pg. 387-401
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of 19th Century Australian Literature Michael Ackland (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1993 Z203182 1993 anthology short story poetry extract prose criticism biography humour satire crime Ringwood : Penguin , 1993 pg. 175-187
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    y separately published work icon The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories Michael Wilding (editor), South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1994 Z92140 1994 anthology short story criticism extract poetry crime humour South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1994 pg. 15-26
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    y separately published work icon Bush Studies Barbara Baynton , London : Duckworth , 1902 Z820571 1902 selected work short story (taught in 12 units)

    '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 collection presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)

         Sydney : University of Sydney Library, Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service , 1997
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Century of Australian Stories Carmel Bird (editor), Ringwood : Viking , 2000 Z290212 2000 anthology short story Ringwood : Viking , 2000 pg. 55-68
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    y separately published work icon Classic Australian Short Stories Maggie Pinkney (editor), Noble Park : Five Mile Press , 2001 Z864787 2001 anthology short story Noble Park : Five Mile Press , 2001 pg. 57-76
Notes:
'"Squeaker's Mate" is the only Barbara Baynton story for which a manuscript is known to survive. This ... is now held by the Mitchell Library. A note on the side of the first page indicates that it was purchased from A. G. Stephens in January 1932. The first nine pages are in typescript, the remaining fifteen in Baynton's handwriting. There are a few corrections made by Baynton in black ink and many more in A. G. Stephens's notorious purple ink. A clean typescript, incorporating both Baynton's and Stephens's corrections is held in the Hayes collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.' (Elizabeth Webby, 'Barbara Baynton's Revisions to "Squeaker's Mate."' )
      ca. 1902-1910 .
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Carbon typescript with ms. corrections by A.G. Stephens

      Holdings

      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Local Id: MLMSS 4937/6)
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    y separately published work icon Cobbers Barbara Baynton , London : Duckworth , 1917 Z820761 1917 selected work short story London : Duckworth , 1917 pg. 33-70
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    y separately published work icon Southerly vol. 44 no. 4 December 1984 Z594879 1984 periodical issue 1984 pg. 460-468
    Note: Reprinted in Elizabeth Webby's 'Barbara Baynton's Revisions to "Squeaker's Mate."
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— Appears in: Southerly , August vol. 76 no. 1 2016; (p. 144-168) ' In an interview in the Guardian in 2004, the renowned American author Annie Proulx spoke of her admiration for the work of a little known Australian writer called Barbara Baynton. The creator of Brokeback Mountain described how she was drawn to the work of another female writer whose work was "aesthetically rudimentary, but takes harshness, between men and women, and the land, to a painful level of implacability" (Edemariam). Proulx was referring specifically to her favourite Baynton short story, Squeaker's Mate, though her comments are applicable to almost every story in Baynton's Bush Studies (1902), a collection characterised by relentlessly unsentimental and brutal depictions of life in remote Australian locations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.' (Publication summary)
Structure against Place, Fate and Cruelty : Deplorable State of Bush Women from the Works of Barbara Baynton P. Bhubaneswari , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Women's Writing in English : India and Australia 2008; (p. 149-156)
'Shafts into Our Fundamental Animalism': Barbara Baynton's Use of Naturalism in 'Bush Studies' Laurie Hergenhan , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 17 no. 3 1996; (p. 211-221)
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— Appears in: Debutante Nation : Feminism Contests the 1890s 1993; (p. 185-198; notes 242-244)
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— Appears in: Arts Quarterly , Summer 1949; (p. 8-13)
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'Squeaker's Mate' : A Bushwoman's Tale Rosemary Moore , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , Summer no. 3 1986; (p. 26-44)
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Footnotes to an Australian Gothic Script Gerry Turcotte , 1993 single work criticism
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'Shafts into Our Fundamental Animalism': Barbara Baynton's Use of Naturalism in 'Bush Studies' Laurie Hergenhan , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 17 no. 3 1996; (p. 211-221)
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