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Glenyse Ward was taken from her mother and put into Wandering Mission to grow up in a regimented and enclosed world of German nuns. At sixteen, again without choice, she was sent to a wealthy farm to be little better than a slave. Soon, she was wishing shoe was back at the mission...' (Source: Back cover)
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Dedication:
For my mother, husband and children,
and for all the Aboriginal women who,
as girls, had to face hard times
working on white people's farms
in the Great Southern and other
districts of their own country.
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- Wandering, Narrogin - Pingelly area, Far Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
- Bush,
- Wandering Mission (1944-1979), Wandering, Narrogin - Pingelly area, Far Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,