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Barbara Corbett Barbara Corbett i(A7950 works by) (birth name: Barbara McDonald) (a.k.a. Barbara Eleanor Corbett)
Also writes as: Babs McDonald
Born: Established: 1923 Dora Creek, Morisset - Wyee area, Lake Macquarie area, Central Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Memories Barbara Corbett , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sand Writers , Winter vol. 1 no. 3 1998; (p. 13) Sand Writers Poetry 1998 1998; (p. 27)
1 Thunder and Lightning... [untitled] Barbara Corbett , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sand Writers Poetry 1998 1998; (p. 9)
1 Pollution Barbara Corbett , 1998 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sand Writers Poetry 1998 1998; (p. 12)
1 Village Mosaic Barbara Corbett , 1997 single work short story
— Appears in: Sand Writers , Summer vol. 1 no. 2 1997; (p. 4)
1 1 y separately published work icon Rainforest Fairy Barbara Corbett , Maleny : Greater Glider , 1996 Z1009585 1996 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon The Day Before Yesterday Barbara Corbett , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1994 Z97374 1994 selected work children's fiction children's When Barbara Corbett was a little girl living in Dora Creek, New South Wales, she used to sit on a step in the sun and listen to these stories her mother told about her own childhood at the other side of the world....Her mother was one of eight mischievous children whose pranks and adventures present a fascinating family portrait of life a hundred years ago in an English midland city. A pea-soup fog, gypsy magic, a summer maypole, a mysterious toybox raider and a charabanc drawn by a handsome pair of dapple-greys all play their parts in these delightful tales.
1 y separately published work icon A Fistful of Buttercups : Glimpses into a Country Childhood of the 1920's Barbara Corbett , Kenthurst : Kangaroo Press , 1983 Z209276 1983 single work autobiography Barbara Corbett spent an enchanted childhood in Dora Creek (NSW). Even in the 1920s, this isolated community was tangled with cultures of distant pasts, distant places. The joys of country living contrast sharply with the bushfires, floods and then the Great Depression of the 1930s.
1 1 y separately published work icon Pamela Finds the Rainbow Castle Babs McDonald , Sydney : John Sands , 1947 Z993555 1947 single work children's fiction children's fantasy
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