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When they land, they are attacked by Aborigines and many of them including Austin, are killed. Ellen is stripped and enslaved. (The fringe of leaves of the title is the fringe she makes to cover herself.) She is eventually rescued by a convict, Jack Chance (who returns to the wilderness) and returns to the Moreton Bay prison colony. Once back, she becomes an advocate for the downtrodden

Set in Australia in the 1840s, A FRINGE OF LEAVES combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with the rest of the passengers and crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class

Only two finally survive the shipwreck and its aftermaths. Ellen is one of them. Her harrowing experiences among the aboriginal population are again very well done, culminating in her escape and rescue. Clinging to civilization in her fringe of leaves Ellen endures. It is in the final chapter, when she has regained civilization, that White's art shines true. The very human Ellen has found her humanity. Each of the scenes, including her meeting with the only other survivor of the wreck, are

A fringe of leaves by Patrick White Publication date 1976 Topics Women -- Australia -- 19th century -- Fiction., Shipwrecks -- Australia -- Fiction., Wilderness survival -- Australia -- Fiction., Gay authors., Australia -- Fiction. Publisher Penguin Books Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; china Digitizing sponsor