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Review of Jill Ker Conway's "True North" | Harvard Magazine

True North (1994) brought the story to American shores, as Conway earned a Harvard Ph.D. in history, found her true north in marriage and intellectual ...

Books by Jill Ker Conway and Complete Book Reviews

Read more about True North and other books by Jill Ker Conway.

Reflections on Autobiography by Jill Ker Conway - Thomas Larson

Jill Ker Conway, feminist historian of memoir, knows the form firsthand. Her best-selling The Road From Coorain (1989) captured her indomitable family and hard- ...

The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway | Goodreads

Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood—a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, ...

Reviews - The Road from Coorain | The StoryGraph

Jill Ker Conway's autobiography covers her life as a child and a young woman, but the chapters describing the first twelve years of her life on a sheep ranch in ...

Books by Jill Ker Conway (Author of The Road from Coorain)

Jill Ker Conway has 19 books on Goodreads with 32331 ratings. Jill Ker Conway's most popular book is The Road from Coorain ... 3.80 5 ratings 1 review. Published ...

Book Review / The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

Her 1989 memoir, The Road from Coorain, describes Conway's transformation from rural girl to intellectual woman.

A Review: Jill Ker Conway's The Road From Coorain

The narratives themselves wind through the central story, Ker Conway's account of her deteriorating relationship with her mother, a woman whose reliance and ...

TRUE NORTH - Kirkus Reviews

In this memoir Conway picks up where she left off in Road From Coorain (1989). She recounts her life in America, from her arrival in 1960 up to her ...

Book Review: The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway - Brown CS

It narrates her trip from the dusty Australian Outback through the loss of close family, college, depression, and her departure from Australia.

The Road to Coorain; A Book Review

While on vacation I read The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway. This is a memoir of her life from infancy to adulthood.

Review of Jill Conway's The Road from Coorain - BrothersJudd.com

Jill Ker Conway was born in 1934 in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia. This memoir takes her from her birth up to her departure for graduate school in ...

Vale Jill Ker Conway | Whispering Gums

Ker Conway chronicles exactly why she left Australia in her first two autobiographies/memoirs. It was because she was regularly overlooked for ...

Jill Ker Conway | National Endowment for the Humanities

So moved have they been, particularly by The Road from Coorain, readers have written to Conway to tell her that the book gave them the courage to change, a ...

Reflections on Autobiography", by Jill Ker Conway (Book Review)

Conway investigates the images of the secular hero and of the romantic heroine; she looks at the autobiographies of empire; there are two chapters on feminist ...

Review: “When Memory Speaks” by Jill Ker Conway

We travel through life guided by an inner life plot—part the creation of family, part the internalization of broader social norms, part the ...

THE CALL OF HTE WIND AND THE KOOKABURRA

Jill Ker Conway, the historian and former president of Smith College, who grew up on a sheep station in the western grasslands of New South ...

A Conversation with Jill Ker Conway - Harvard Business Review

Read the article by Lynn S. Paine: Click here for an in-depth discussion of what other companies can learn from Nike's experience in setting up a ...

Summary of 'The Road from Coorain' by Jill Ker Conway

As Jill grapples with her father's death, her mother descends into depressive states. This family dynamic creates tension, forcing young Jill to mature quickly, ...

Borzoi Reader | Authors | Jill Ker Conway - Penguin Random House

Through it all we see Jill Ker Conway coping with her husband's illness, and learning to protect and sustain her inner self. As the end of a decade at Smith ...