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  1. May 10, 2021 · May 10, 2021 7:00am PT. ‘The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson’ Review: An Exceptionally Compelling Outback Western. Underscoring of the obvious in a handful of scenes does little to...

  2. May 5, 2022 · The classic short tale of a harried bush woman who fiercely guards her young children while her husband is away on business, by bush poet Henry Lawson, stuck in the back of Purcell’s mind as a ...

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  3. Nov 9, 2021 · Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson is an inspired and compelling re-imagining of Henry Lawson’s The Drover’s Wife, a short story originally published in The ...

  4. Mar 18, 2021 · Leah Purcell's Australian Western 'The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson' reimagines a classic of colonial literature from an Indigenous feminist perspective, depicting the...

  5. Mar 18, 2021 · Australia’s history of racial prejudice drives The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, an unrelenting 19th century-set Western that delivers a new reckoning with many of the...

  6. Mar 18, 2021 · The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson crucially centers an Indigenous woman’s creative vision. But Purcell’s reliance on leveraging the pain of marginalized people as a marker of humanity feels outdated and detracts from its own ideals.

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  8. May 4, 2022 · In The Drover's Wife the Legend of Molly Johnson – the titular figure having been bequeathed the name by Purcell, who inhabits the role with twinkle-eyed ferocity – there is no snake lurking ...