Wandering Girl

WEST AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

The autobiography of an Aboriginal girl taken as a baby from her natural parents, put in a mission home, and subsequently into domestic service. The author writes with poignancy, but also with irrepressible warmth and humour about her life and about a practice that sadly, was common in Western Australia until very recent times. 158 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. (Name on fep.) #1214/1019/0620/0721/290523

An autobiographical account of an Australian aborigine, brought up in an orphanage and sent to work in a rich white family’s house where she is treated virtually like a slave.
The heartbreak and the humour of a young woman’s fight for freedom and identity in a truly puzzling world – straight from a sheltered mission existence to work at sixteen on a bizarre Australian farm in the 1960s.
Ward, Glenyse, 1949- | Ward, Glenyse, 1949- | Women, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Biography. | Religions – Christianity – Missions. | Employment – Labour market – Women. | Child welfare – Child / parent separation – Stolen generations. | History – Biographies – Indigenous – Autobiographies. | Socioeconomic conditions – Living conditions. | Religions – Christianity – Catholic Church. | Occupations – Domestic servants. | Wandering (SW WA SI50-02) | Perth (SW WA SH50-14)