and free it from the constrains of the English hegemony.
             The new literature of the 1890's is evidenced in the works of Henry Lawson. Reflecting the new democratic spirit of Australia and expressing confident hopes for a unity between the individual and the land the function of Lawson's negation of identifying place, whilst perhaps misguidedly optimistic, is undeniable. He was stimulated by a notion of 'Australian-ness' yet rather than expressing a split between the land and society, Lawson's short story 'Brighten's Sister-in-Law,' reiterates recurring 'traditional' themes of his works; the common working man and woman growing in stature through their struggle with Australian nature; 'the place was only a dusty little pastoral town in the scrubs.' Lawson's further explores ideas of a national identity through his use of quintessential Australian language referring to be 'on the Gulgong' and living in an 'old shanty.'
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