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Edie Wright Edie Wright i(A65994 works by) (a.k.a. Edith Maralyn Wright )
Born: Established: 1954 Broome, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Bardi
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1 8 y separately published work icon Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story Edie Wright , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2001 Z938227 2001 single work autobiography

'Full Circle is the remarkable and moving story of three generations of Edie Wright's family. In the early 1900s, at the age of four, Alfred Brow was taken from his mother in northern Queensland and placed in Mapoon Mission. Eventually, as a young married man employed by the mission he was sent to the far north-west Kimberley. Following the death of his wife, Ina, Alf showed resourcefulness and steely determination in keeping his family together despite great difficulties and unsympathetic government policies...' (Source: inside front cover)
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