Henry Lawson, like most of his contemporaries gave little consideration to women in the majority of his poems and stories. The Australian myth almost totally excluded them. When Lawson does mention women they seem to be someone's wife waiting as in The Ballad of the Drover or someone's whore, (The Faces in the Street, The Captain of the Push). The Drover's Wife is unusual in that the central character is a woman. In few words …showed first 75 words of 1087 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1087 total…The Captain of the Push in Grant, et. al. (eds) An Anthology of Australian Verse and Song, Perth, Black Swan Press, 1993. Lawson, Henry, The Drover's Wife in Australian Literature to 1950, Reader, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 1998 Baynton, Barbara, The Chosen Vessel in Krummen, Sally & Lawson, Alan (eds) The Portable Barbara Baynton, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1980 Iseman, Kay, Barbara Baynton: woman as 'the chosen vessel' in Australian Literary Studies Volume 11, Number 1, p25-37, 1983