She published this book under the pen name Mrs Aeneas Gunn. Although published as a novel, it is an account of the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory in which she changed the names of people to obscure their identities. But much more than these things, Jeannie Gunn's We of the Never Never is a very old love story, and they just don't write them like this any more. We of the Never Never is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn. Its depiction of white settlement in wild Australia, however unfashionable today, makes it an important historical document. 'We of the Never Never is an Australian classic and deserves to be one its imagery and wordplay are unlike any Australian text I have read before or since. We of the Never-Never is presented in a special condensed edition, The Little Black Princess is presented as the full original text. These books have become classics of Australian literature, beloved by generations. Though she spend little more than a year there, her experiences in the outback and her contact with the local Aborigines impressed her deeply, and on her return to Melbourne she set down her recollections in two books, We of the Never-Never and The Little Black Princess. In 1902, Jeannie Gunn, a Melbourne schoolteacher, went with her new husband to live on the remote Elsey cattle station near the Roper River in the Northern Territory. The less said about the strained relationship with her husband and Arthur Dignam's hardly remarkable performance the better, but this is Punch McGregor's film all the way with a special mention to the breathtaking majestic landscape photography that makes the outback seem more alluring than ever.The original, autobiographical account of life and love in the Australian bush. Further questions of inference arise with an Indigenous man who she tries to force to take medicine, and it is all endlessly engaging as we witness a character with more moral fibre than those around her wrestling with whether or not her generosity is in fact beneficial. The question then arises of whether she actually has the girl's best interests at heart by taking her away from her family and basically trying to adopt her. Particularly compelling are the maternal instincts that swell up inside her as she bonds with a young Indigenous girl without strong parental figures in her life.

The plot soon thickens though as she befriends the local Indigenous Australians and finds herself at odds with her Caucasian companions (including her husband), who treat the Aborigines as second class citizens.

Having never lived outside the suburbs and finding herself with no Caucasian female company at all, 'We of the Never Never' at first seems predictable with lead actress Angela Punch McGregor undergoing many trials and tribulations adjusting to her new life. Agreeing to live with her cattle rancher husband in the Australian outback circa 1900, a young woman finds her preconceptions and views on the world at large changed in this iconic drama, based on actual events.

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