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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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
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 NERFINISHED
True North NERFINISHED
follows Jill Ker Conway’s early life
genre autobiography
memoir
non-fiction
hasPart accounts of Conway’s childhood at Coorain
accounts of boarding school experiences
accounts of early academic career
accounts of university life in Sydney
language English
mainSubject Australian outback NERFINISHED
Jill Ker Conway NERFINISHED
childhood
education
feminism
women in academia
notableFor insight into development of a feminist scholar
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
New South Wales NERFINISHED
theme class and social mobility
education as liberation
feminist consciousness
gender roles
grief and loss
identity formation
rural isolation
timePeriodCovered 1930s
1940s
1950s

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Geoff Burton notableWork The Road from Coorain
Sue Smith wroteFor The Road from Coorain
Jill Ker Conway notableWork The Road from Coorain