Black Thursday and Other Lost Australian Bushfire Stories

<p>In these stories of a quintessential Australian phenomenon bushfires reveal a conflagration of human drama. They deepen the pain of a tragic love triangle bring justice to a false mate and push a young drover and his horse to the limits of their endurance. A priest and wedding guests find themselves fighting fires instead of toasting the happy couple. A woman capable of saving her farm from fire cannot save herself from the proprietary rage of men. And a good horse and a faithful dog prove themselves the best allies in a dangerous situation.</p><p><br></p><p>Fiannuala Morgan is PhD candidate at the Australian National University with a particular interest in geospatial analysis of nineteenth century Australian literature and the author of Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction: The Literature of Anita Heiss from Cambridge University Press.</p><p><br></p><p><em>To Be Continued</em> is an Australian Research Council funded project led by Associate Professor Katherine Bode that has unearthed an astonishing bibliographic index and full-text archive of fiction in Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1955.</p><p><br></p>