The Road from Coorain
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The Road from Coorain is Jill Ker Conway’s acclaimed memoir recounting her childhood on an Australian sheep station and her journey toward becoming a pioneering academic and feminist thinker.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Road from Coorain canonical | 3 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | memoir ⓘ |
| adaptation | The Road from Coorain (television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| adaptationType | television film ⓘ |
| author | Jill Ker Conway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| describes |
Conway’s education
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Conway’s intellectual development ⓘ Conway’s move from Australia to the United States ⓘ Conway’s relationship with her parents ⓘ impact of drought on rural life ⓘ life on an isolated sheep station ⓘ |
| followedBy |
A Woman’s Education
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True North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Jill Ker Conway’s early life ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
accounts of Conway’s childhood at Coorain
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accounts of boarding school experiences ⓘ accounts of early academic career ⓘ accounts of university life in Sydney ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Australian outback
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Jill Ker Conway NERFINISHED ⓘ childhood ⓘ education ⓘ feminism ⓘ women in academia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
insight into development of a feminist scholar
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portrayal of women’s lives in mid-20th-century Australia ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Jill Ker Conway autobiographical trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setting |
Australian sheep station
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New South Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
class and social mobility
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education as liberation ⓘ feminist consciousness ⓘ gender roles ⓘ grief and loss ⓘ identity formation ⓘ rural isolation ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
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