Issue Details: First known date: 1929... 1929 The Bushwhackers : Sketches of Life in the Australian Outback
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The Bushwhackers consisted of stories or legends Stephensen remembered from his boyhood in and around Biggenden. (Craig Munro Wild Man of Letters: the Story of P. R. Stephensen (1984): 80).

Notes

  • E. Morris Miller's Australian literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 775 comments: 'Short stories partly humorous and partly satirical.'
  • Craig Munro (79-80) records that Stephensen wrote The Bushwhackers probably between February and May 1929 while personally and intellectually engaged with D. H. Lawrence and his novel Kangaroo. Lawrence wrote to him: 'I am puzzled that you should feel you have to conquer or contradict something of me inside yourself. Kangaroo was only just what I felt. You may indeed know something much deeper and more vital about Australia and the Australian future. I should be the first to admit it.' Lawrence felt Stephensen lacked perseverance as a writer, critiquing The Bushwhackers as follows: 'it's too sketchy. You won't be patient enough and go deep enough into your own scene. You always stay at the level of the sketch, because of the hurry. If you went deeper you'd get a real book out of it. But you haven't the submission.'

    By contrast Miles Franklin as 'Brent of Bin Bin' wrote to Stephensen: 'Bushwhackers...made a milestone day for me, one of those days when I threw up my hat because of finding a new accretion to the real Australian Literature; that which savours our unique, our inebriating, laughing, haunting, wistful, brooding, ancient, ageless, unplumbed, silent land...it is Australian writing, and that has special, I may say sacred..significance to me.' (Munro: 80).

    (Craig Munro Wild Man of Letters: the Story of P.R. Stephensen (1935)).

Contents

* Contents derived from the London,
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Mandrake Press , 1929 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Willy Ah Foo, P. R. Stephensen , single work short story (p. 36)

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Works about this Work

A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1929 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 20 September vol. 1 no. 10 1929; (p. 310-311)

— Review of Songs of a Fuzzy-Top: Being, Mainly, the Love Story of a South Sea Islander, Told in His Own Peculiar English Jack McLaren , 1926 selected work poetry ; Two Masters A. W. Wheen , 1923 single work novella ; The Bushwhackers : Sketches of Life in the Australian Outback P. R. Stephensen , 1929 selected work short story ; Mateship with Birds Alec H. Chisholm , 1922 selected work prose ; Birds and Green Places : A Book of Australian Nature Gossip Alec H. Chisholm , 1929 single work non-fiction
The Bushwhackers Nettie Palmer , 1929 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 16 October vol. 50 no. 2592 1929; (p. 5)

— Review of The Bushwhackers : Sketches of Life in the Australian Outback P. R. Stephensen , 1929 selected work short story
Literary Standards Nettie Palmer , 1929 single work criticism
— Appears in: Illustrated Tasmanian Mail , 25 September 1929; Nettie Palmer : Her Private Journal Fourteen Years, Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays 1988; (p. 381-384)
A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1929 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 20 September vol. 1 no. 10 1929; (p. 310-311)

— Review of Songs of a Fuzzy-Top: Being, Mainly, the Love Story of a South Sea Islander, Told in His Own Peculiar English Jack McLaren , 1926 selected work poetry ; Two Masters A. W. Wheen , 1923 single work novella ; The Bushwhackers : Sketches of Life in the Australian Outback P. R. Stephensen , 1929 selected work short story ; Mateship with Birds Alec H. Chisholm , 1922 selected work prose ; Birds and Green Places : A Book of Australian Nature Gossip Alec H. Chisholm , 1929 single work non-fiction
The Bushwhackers Nettie Palmer , 1929 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 16 October vol. 50 no. 2592 1929; (p. 5)

— Review of The Bushwhackers : Sketches of Life in the Australian Outback P. R. Stephensen , 1929 selected work short story
Literary Standards Nettie Palmer , 1929 single work criticism
— Appears in: Illustrated Tasmanian Mail , 25 September 1929; Nettie Palmer : Her Private Journal Fourteen Years, Poems, Reviews and Literary Essays 1988; (p. 381-384)
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