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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Wisdom of Women : Intimate Stories of Love, Loss and Laughter
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'Candida Baker grew up in a colourful family, with an actor father and costume designer mother. Her parents' complex, and at times chaotic, lives made for a challenging environment, and from an early age Candida understood the importance of friends, finding comfort and support from many close friendships with women and from ongoing loving relationships with all her sisters.

In The Wisdom of Women, Candida celebrates all the wisdom and nurturing supportive female friends, family, mentors, and even strangers, can bring to our lives. With great deftness she weaves the tapestry of her life around the experiences of other women, who freely share their stories of kindness, laughter, betrayal and loss. This book positively sparkles with womanly warmth and humour.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my sisters and women friends who encircle my life with love, support, encouragement and kindness.
  • Candida Baker is listed as the compiler as well as the author, because the work also includes pieces by a number of other women, including (but not limited to) Emma Ashmere, Ros Brenner, Charlotte Brooks, Helen Brown, Jane Camens, Marian Clarke, Jessie Cole, Lynne Gesco, Zali Gesco, Maya Gesco, Maggie Hamilton, Elaine Harris, Zoe Humphreys, Noelene Kelly, Fay Knight, Trish Landberger, Claire Leimbach, Deb Lennon, Jean Linderman, Ros Moriarty, Eunice Mosher, Cecilia Novy, Carmen Paff, Jenny Palmer, Liz Porter, Ally Redding, Rhoda Roberts, Melissa Sanghera, Virginia Satir, Simone Smith, Stella Vance, Bella Vendramini, Zenith Virago, Linda Walker, Clare Wishart, and Susan Wyndham.
  • Content indexing in process.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Allen and Unwin , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
[Great Aunts], Emma Ashmere , single work autobiography (p. 259-263)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
      person or book cover
      Image courtesy of Allen & Unwin
      Extent: viii, 344 pp.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Published: April 2012
      ISBN: 1741759536 (pbk.), 9781741759532 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 May 2012; (p. 35)

— Review of The Wisdom of Women : Intimate Stories of Love, Loss and Laughter Candida Baker , 2012 selected work autobiography ; The Mullumbimby Kid : A Portrait of the Poet as a Child Edwin Wilson , 2000 single work autobiography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 May 2012; (p. 35)

— Review of The Wisdom of Women : Intimate Stories of Love, Loss and Laughter Candida Baker , 2012 selected work autobiography ; The Mullumbimby Kid : A Portrait of the Poet as a Child Edwin Wilson , 2000 single work autobiography
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