The Drover's Wife (short story) - Wikipedia.
A Comparison of Two Bush Stories - The Drover's Wife by Henry Lawson and The Grazier's Wife by Christobel Mattingley (801 words, 2 pages) Traditional bush stories have always been a part of Australia's history involving many types of characters like Drovers and Shearers, just to name a couple.
There is a remarkable essay, The Australian Bush Woman, written in 1889 by Lawson’s mother, Louisa, three years before The Drover’s Wife, which inspired her son’s story.
Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets, and he's black. She knows there's a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something's holding the Drover's Wife back from turning this fella in.
Leah Purcell's A Drover's Wife has been named Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Credit: Paul Jeffers Purcell turned it into the much-acclaimed Belvoir St Theatre stage.
Ellen’s first book, Heat and Light, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. Ellen’s second book, a collection of poetry, Comfort Food, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize and highly commended for the 2016 Wesley Michel Wright Prize.
The Drover's Wives is much in the same vein but perhaps a bit more accessible to people without as much knowledge of the country's literary history. The book opens with the original Henry La What a delectable (and delectably weird) book this is.
In his hands, The Drover’s Wife can become a sports commentary, a reality television show, a children’s essay and a set of emojis. It can transform itself into a mathematics problem, a.