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'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)
Notes
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Dedication:
To the memory of
my brothers,
Gregory and Dickie,
maternal grandparents,
Alfred and Ina Brown,
and paternal grandparents,
Amy (Goodji) and
Richard (Ginger) D'Antoine.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Indigenous Life Stories
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 209-218) -
[Review Essay] Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2003; (p. 114-115)
— Review of Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story 2001 single work autobiography'This is a story about individuals and families that, at face value, appear to be rather ordinary—labourers, domestics, mothers, grandmothers, skippers, school children, fishermen and mechanics. But this story is anything but ordinary and their life experiences were anything but mundane: growing up without parents on a mission in far north Queensland, living on Kunmunya Mission in the Kimberley, skippering a boat along the Western Australia coast, living in Broome during the Japanese air raids, raising eleven children and fostering others, being exempted from the Act, contracting leprosy and spending time in a leprosarium. The family fished on the Fitzroy River to earn extra income, attempted to establish a community on traditional land, and were reunited with family on the other side of the continent after more than 70 years of separation.' (Introduction)
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[Untitled]
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , June no. 6 2002;
— Review of Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story 2001 single work autobiography -
Full Circle by Edie Wright
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 10 no. 2 2002; (p. 16) -
Family mission spans century
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 June 2002; (p. 16)
— Review of Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story 2001 single work autobiography
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[Untitled]
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , June no. 6 2002;
— Review of Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story 2001 single work autobiography -
[Review Essay] Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2003; (p. 114-115)
— Review of Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story 2001 single work autobiography'This is a story about individuals and families that, at face value, appear to be rather ordinary—labourers, domestics, mothers, grandmothers, skippers, school children, fishermen and mechanics. But this story is anything but ordinary and their life experiences were anything but mundane: growing up without parents on a mission in far north Queensland, living on Kunmunya Mission in the Kimberley, skippering a boat along the Western Australia coast, living in Broome during the Japanese air raids, raising eleven children and fostering others, being exempted from the Act, contracting leprosy and spending time in a leprosarium. The family fished on the Fitzroy River to earn extra income, attempted to establish a community on traditional land, and were reunited with family on the other side of the continent after more than 70 years of separation.' (Introduction)
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CoverNotes
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 27 January 2002; (p. 11)
— Review of Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story 2001 single work autobiography -
Traversing the Personal
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 239 2002; (p. 33-34)
— Review of Finding Ullagundahi Island 2001 single work novel ; Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence 1996 single work biography ; Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story 2001 single work autobiography -
Aboriginal Life in Kimberleys
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 March 2002; (p. 22)
— Review of Full Circle : From Mission to Community : A Family Story 2001 single work autobiography -
Indigenous Life Stories
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 209-218) -
Full Circle by Edie Wright
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 10 no. 2 2002; (p. 16)
- Mapoon Aboriginal Mission (1891- 1959), Far North Queensland, Queensland,
- Kunmunya Mission (1912-1951), Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
- Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,