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'Stories—fictional, biographical, and autobiographical—are one way in which we can imagine what it has been like to experience foster care in Australia. In this paper I look at the trends in stories told about foster care from the nineteenth century, across the twentieth, and into the early twenty-first century. While exploring these trends, I make some observations about the shift from fictional accounts where foster parents and foster children were heroic characters to often searing tales of hurt and trauma inflicted on children in foster care by violent women and men.'
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From Hagiography to Personal Pain : Stories of Australian Foster Care from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Adoption and Culture
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- The Church of the Glass of Water 1867 single work short story
- The Plot for a Life : Or, The Pilot and the Contrabandist. A Story of Ship and Shore. 1875 single work short story
- Commissioner Thelenef 1870 single work short story
- Romance of a Miniature 1889 single work short story
- John Falconer's Courtship; Or, True as Steel 1875 single work short story
- Tom Hope 1930-1931 single work novella
- The Foster Fathers 1934 single work short story
- State Kid 1940 single work short story
- The Joyful Condemned 1953 single work novel
- The Home Girls 1982 single work short story
- Karobran : The Story of an Aboriginal Girl 1978 single work novel
- The Boy Adeodatus : The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bastard 1984 single work autobiography
- Paydirt 2007 single work novel
- Rocks in the Belly 2010 single work novel
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