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Fencer, horsewoman, dogger, roo skinner, goat hunter, cook, hard-working mother and backbone of two generations in the high hill country of the Pilbara. Florence Corrigan's life starts taking shape in an extremely isolated childhood and transforms when she escapes from the bush. The education about society continues on her travels around Australia and culminates when she meets her future husband over a lost bet in a strange beer garden. Florence's life is a vigorous journey of discovery of people, places and self. This is compounded by single motherhood, forced adoption in the sixties - when society thought it knew better - and self-taught literacy. Miles of Post and Wire details Florence's search for truth and amidst the deception shaped by her parents and silenced by family and death. It also unearths shocking family secrets that ultimately lead Florence on a pilgrimage for identity, a name and a culture. - back cover
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Dedication: Dedicated to my brother William Edward (Doug) Burgess With Love
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- Also braille.
- Also e-book.
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Works about this Work
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Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 May 2010; (p. 28-29)
— Review of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction 2010 anthology short story extract ; Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 15)
— Review of Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 43 no. 1 1999; (p. 28-29)
— Review of Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , Summer no. 77 1999-2000; (p. 36)
— Review of Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story -
Mixing It
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 11 no. 1999; (p. 10-13)
— Review of Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography ; Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story ; Indigenous Australian Voices : A Reader 1998 anthology extract poetry criticism autobiography prose short story
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Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , February vol. 43 no. 1 1999; (p. 28-29)
— Review of Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story -
Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 May 2010; (p. 28-29)
— Review of The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction 2010 anthology short story extract ; Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 15)
— Review of Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story -
Mixing It
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 11 no. 1999; (p. 10-13)
— Review of Sister Girl : The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins 1998 selected work prose interview essay biography ; Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story ; Indigenous Australian Voices : A Reader 1998 anthology extract poetry criticism autobiography prose short story -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , Summer no. 77 1999-2000; (p. 36)
— Review of Miles of Post and Wire 1998 single work life story
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Subjects:
- Western Australia,
- Queensland,
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
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