The Road from Coorain

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t age 11, Conway ( Women Reformers and American Culture ) left the arduous life on her circle of relatives’s sheep farm within the Australian outback for school in war-time Sydney, burdened by an emotionally dependent, recently widowed mother. A full of life curiosity and penetrating intellect light up this unusually objective account of the writer’s progress from a solitary childhood–essentially the most appealing a part of the narrative–to public achievement as president of Smith College and now professor at MIT. Gifted with an ability to adapt to quite a lot of cultures and people and in spite of ingrained Australian prejudice against intellectuals, Conway devoted herself to the study of history and literature, spurred on by superb British-style schooling. Her further adventures could easily make a rewarding second volume.

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