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Florence Corrigan Florence Corrigan i(A17858 works by) (birth name: Florence Jane Burgess)
Born: Established: 1932 Subiaco, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 5 y separately published work icon Miles of Post and Wire Florence Corrigan , Loreen Brehaut , Broome : Magabala Books , 1998 Z266830 1998 single work life story 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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