Barbara Baynton's Bush Studies

Barbara Baynton in her series of short stories Bush Studies, has an imagined view of life in England. She portrays the bush as a dark and evil place to reside. She places England at the top of her psychological and social hierarchy. She views the lifestyle there to be safer and more acceptable. Baynton places Australian society below that of England. She does this due to the fact that at the time of writing Australia was only a new fledgling country and it didn’t have the predetermined social order that England had. Baynton views the city lifestyle as highly civilized and intelligent. Baynton then compares this to the bush where society is almost non existent.

Baynton challenges the genres that were available for her style of writing. She