![]() ![]() ![]() Jeannie Gunn wrote two novels about her time in the outback. She did not marry again, and lived in her parents' house for the rest of her long life. After only thirteen months of marriage, Aeneas died suddenly of malarial dysentery, and Jeannie returned to Hawthorn. Three days later the couple began a difficult journey to their new home, `the Elsey,' a cattle station on the Roper River, nearly 500 kilometres from Darwin, where Aeneas had found employment as station manager. On 31 December 1901, a schoolteacher called Jeannie Taylor married librarian and part cattle-station owner Aeneas Gunn at Jeannie's family home in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne. ![]() The Maluka, the Little Missus, the Sanguine Scot, the Head Stockman, the Dandy, the Quiet Stockman, the Fizzer, Mine Host, the Wag, Some of our Guests, a few black "boys" and lubras, a dog or two, Tam-o' -Shanter, Happy Dick, Sam Lee, and last but by no means least, Cheon.The background is filled in with an evermoving company - a strange medley of Whites, Blacks and Chinese of travellers, overlanders, and billabongers, who passed in and out of our lives, leaving behind them sometimes bright memories, sometimes sad, and sometimes little memory at all.(1) ![]() WE - are just some of the bush-folk of the Never-Never. Racism in the Never-Never: Disparate Readings of Jeannie Gunn ![]()
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