Jill Ker Conway

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The Road From Coorain

A small masterpiece of scene, memory and very stylish English. I've been several times to Australia; this book was the most rewarding of all

<i>The Road from Coorain </i>is the work of a writer who relentlessly tugs at the cultural fences around her until they collapse, leaving her solitary under an immense Australian sky, enlarged to herself at least

This book, an extraordinarily gripping and inspiring work, will take place as one of the few heroic stories of girlhood

Immensely readable, elegant and well-crafted

<i>The Road From Coorain </i>is the beautifully written narrative of Jill Ker Conway's journey from girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College).

A Woman's Education

The inspiring and much loved memoir which follows Jill Ker Conway’s early years from her childhood in the Australian outback, to her time in Sydney and on to America as a young woman

Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her PhD from Havard University in 1969. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto and was Vice President there before serving in 1975 and fro the next ten years as President of Smith College. Since 1985 she has been Visiting Scholar and Professor in MIT's Programme in Science, Technology and Society, and now lives with her husband in Milton, Massachusetts.

The Road From Coorain

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