The Drover's Wife (short story)

Plot summary

Publications

• Short Stories in Prose and Verse by Henry Lawson
• While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
• The Bulletin Story Book : A Selection of Stories and Literary Sketches from 'The Bulletin' edited by Alfred George Stephens
• Australian Short Stories edited by George Mackaness
• The Children's Lawson edited by Colin Roderick
• The Bulletin, 1 February 1950
• Hemisphere vol. 1 no. 2,
• Favourite Australian Stories edited by Colin Thiele
• A Century of Australian Short Stories edited by Cecil Hadgraft and R. B. J. Wilson
• Short Stories of Australia : The Lawson Tradition edited by Douglas Stewart
• While the Billy Boils : 87 Stories from the Prose Works of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson
• The Bush Undertaker and Other Stories edited by Colin Roderick
• Henry Lawson : Selected Stories edited by Brian Matthews
• Best Australian Short Stories edited by Douglas Stewart and Beatrice Davis
• Henry Lawson's Best Stories by Henry Lawson
• The Old Bulletin Reader : The Best Stories from The Bulletin 1881–1901
• An Australian Selection : Short Stories By Lawson, Palmer, Porter, White and Cowan edited by John Barnes
• The World of Henry Lawson edited by Walter Stone
• The Bulletin, 29 January 1980
• Short Stories by Henry Lawson
• Prose Works of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson
• The Essential Henry Lawson : The Best Works of Australia's Greatest Writer edited by Brian Kiernan
• A Camp-Fire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885–1900 edited by Leonard Cronin
• Henry Lawson Favourites by Henry Lawson
• My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer
• Henry Lawson : An Illustrated Treasury by Henry Lawson
• The Penguin Henry Lawson : Short Stories edited by John Barnes
• Henry Lawson's Mates : The Complete Stories of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson
• Australian Short Stories edited by Carmel Bird
• The Penguin Book of 19th Century Australian Literature edited by Michael Ackland
• An Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Ch'oe Chin-yong and Cynthia Van Den Driesen
• The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English edited by John Thieme
• 200 Years of Australian Writing : An Anthology edited by James F. H. Moore
• Classic Australian Short Stories edited by Maggie Pinkney
• Henry Lawson edited by Geoffrey Blainey
• The Campfire Yarns of Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson
• Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature edited by Nicholas Jose, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Anita Heiss, David McCooey, Peter Minter, Nicole Moore and Elizabeth Webby

  Cultural references

• The Drover's Wife is a 1945 painting by Australian artist Russell Drysdale. While the painting does not specifically illustrate a scene from the story, it takes its title from it.
• Murray Bail's story, "The Drover's Wife", is based on Drysdale's painting and is narrated by the woman's first husband.
• Frank Moorhouse's story, "The Drover's Wife", satirises the bush ethos of Lawson and academics who study him.
• Barbara Jefferis's story, "The Drover's Wife", provides a feminist viewpoint of the story.
• Damien Broderick's story, "The Drover's Wife's Dog", narrates the story from the point of view of the dog.
• Ryan O'Neill's 2018 collection of stories, The Drover's Wives: 99 Reinterpretations of Henry Lawson's Australian Classic, remixes and revises Lawson's story in 99 different ways.

  On screen and stage