Bittersweet journey / Ruth Hegarty
- Bib ID:
- 2643824
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hegarty, Ruth, 1929-
- Description:
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- St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2003
- xiv, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : facsims., ports. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0702234141
- 0702234141
- Summary:
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The sequel to the David Unaipon award-winning memoir Is That You Ruthie? which chronicled Ruth Hegarty's childhood story. Bittersweet Journey starts with Ruth's courtship while she was an inmate of Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission, followed by her marriage and family life outside the mission and eventually in Brisbane.
- Notes:
- The sequel to the award-winning memoir, Is that you, Ruthie?
- Subject:
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- Hegarty, Ruth, 1929-
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy
- Government policy - State and territory - Queensland
- Religions - Christianity - Missions - Aborigines Inland Mission
- Dungidjau people (E20) (Qld SG56-14)
- Socioeconomic conditions - Living conditions
- History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement (Qld.)
- Cherbourg / Barambah (SE Qld SG56-10)
- Queensland (Qld)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2003
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