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Biography of Barbara Baynton
Name: Barbara Baynton
Birth Date: June 4, 1857
Death Date: May 28, 1929
Place of Birth: Scone, Australia
Nationality: Australian
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer
Barbara Baynton
Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer. Her work is notable for its rejection of Australian nationalism and the Australian bush, especially tales of women struggling to cope with the harsh realities of bush life.Conflicting StoriesBaynton was born in Scone, in the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales, Australia, on June 4, 1857. For many years, the date of her birth and the identities of her parents were uncertain, because Baynton altered her birth date and disguised her parents' identities. She claimed to have been born in 1862, to Penelope Ewart and Captain Robert Kilpatrick, who were supposedly Irish immigrants to Australia and fell in love on the ship en route to Australia. Although Penelope Ewart was supposedly married at the time, she began a relationship with Kilpatrick and later married him when her husband died. This story, which was believed even by Baynton's own grandchildren, was later proven …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…her home in Melbourne, after breaking her leg and contracting pneumonia. Phillips wrote that Baynton represented "with rare directness, [a] revolt against self-confident Australianism, despite the fact that she is not a social writer." Krimmer and Lawson summed up Baynton's literary impact by writing that although she has long been unknown and unread, "in the past decade she has been enthusiastically 'discovered' by a large number of readers. . . . Now that her name is relatively well known the time is ripe to make available for assessment the whole range of her literary work." Further Reading Goodwin, Ken, A History of Australian Literature, St. Martin's Press, 1986, pp. 43-44.Krimmer, Sally, and Alan Lawson, editors, Barbara Baynton, University of Queensland Press, 1980. Pierre, Peter, editor, Oxford Literary Guide to Australia, Oxford University Press, 1993.Phillips, A. A., "Barbara Baynton and the Dissidence of the Nineties," in The Australian Nationalists, edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Oxford University Press, 1971.
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