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Issue Details: First known date: 1907... 1907 Human Toll
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  • Dedication: To Boshy's Lovey and mine.
  • 'The date of composition is unknown but there are a few possible clues. Baynton refers to the proofs of Human Toll lying about her in a letter to A.G. Stephens from Switzerland in January 1906: she seems to have had them for a long time. This novel may also be the "long story" she mentions in another letter to Stephens, in February 1903' (Editor's Note, Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton, UQP, 1980).

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The Making of Barbara Baynton Rosemary Moore , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Changing The Victorian Subject 2014; (p. 83-103)
Bush Mythology in Human Toll Gong Jing , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Xihua University , April vol. 30 no. 2 2011; (p. 95-98) 'Barbara Baynton was one of the most important women writers who were active at the turn of the 20* century, when Henry Lawson and "Banjo" Paterson' s robust nationalism were more dominating voices. Baynton' s, which was definitely a feminine one, was a dissident voice. The present work aims to discuss the theme of motherhood in her only novel, Human Toll, to explore Baynton s effort in subverting the prevailing self-confident bush mythology which was best represented by the idea of "mateship".' (Publication abstract)
Structure against Place, Fate and Cruelty : Deplorable State of Bush Women from the Works of Barbara Baynton P. Bhubaneswari , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Women's Writing in English : India and Australia 2008; (p. 149-156)
Barbara Baynton : Liar or Truth-Teller Rosemary Moore , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quodlibet : The Australian Journal of Trans-National Writing , March no. 1 2005;
Envisioning Female Sexuality in Barbara Baynton's 'Human Toll' Rosemary Moore , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Time to Write : Australian Women Writers 1890-1930 1993; (p. 218-237) Moore examines the ways in which Human Toll explores anxieties about female sexuality, arguing that "terror arises out of a woman's perception of the horror that surrounds female sexuality as a social construction and a projection of male fears". Moore demonstrates that, in Human Toll, Baynton endows Ursula with the capacity to escape the cycle of a "woman's trajectory". Given the power to recognise inhibiting stereotypes, Ursula takes control of her quest for self-knowledge and her desire to be a writer.
A Note On Barbara Baynton Peter Cowan , 1949 single work review
— Appears in: Arts Quarterly , Summer 1949; (p. 8-13)
— Review of The Chosen Vessel Barbara Baynton , 1896 single work short story ; Bush Studies Barbara Baynton , 1902 selected work short story ; Squeaker's Mate Barbara Baynton , 1902 single work short story ; Scrammy 'And Barbara Baynton , 1902 single work short story ; Billy Skywonkie Barbara Baynton , 1902 single work short story ; Bush Church Barbara Baynton , 1902 single work short story ; Human Toll Barbara Baynton , 1907 single work novel Discusses Barbara Baynton's 'bare objectivity' and 'treatment of subject matter' which, in Peter Cowan's view, 'tends to exclude the writer's personality'.
Untitled 1907 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 27 April 1907; (p. 20)
— Review of Human Toll Barbara Baynton , 1907 single work novel
Untitled 1907 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 15 June 1907; (p. 20)
— Review of Human Toll Barbara Baynton , 1907 single work novel
Untitled Alfred George Stephens , 1907 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 April vol. 28 no. 1416 1907; (p. 2)
— Review of Human Toll Barbara Baynton , 1907 single work novel
The Bush 1907 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 April vol. 28 no. 1416 1907; (p. 2)
— Review of Human Toll Barbara Baynton , 1907 single work novel
Barbara Baynton : Liar or Truth-Teller Rosemary Moore , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quodlibet : The Australian Journal of Trans-National Writing , March no. 1 2005;
The Enigma of Woman : Barbara Baynton's Human Toll Rosemary Moore , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , no. 12 1990; (p. 83-93)
Structure against Place, Fate and Cruelty : Deplorable State of Bush Women from the Works of Barbara Baynton P. Bhubaneswari , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Women's Writing in English : India and Australia 2008; (p. 149-156)
Barbara Baynton: An Australian Jocasta Joan Kirkby , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , December vol. 34 no. 4 1989; (p. 114-124)
y separately published work icon Modern Australian Literature, 1900-1923 Nettie Palmer , Melbourne : Lothian , 1924 Z120440 1924 single work criticism
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