AustLit logo
y separately published work icon A Woman of Independence single work   autobiography  
Note: Title page: Kirsty Sword Gusmao with Rowena Lennox.
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 A Woman of Independence
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Notes

  • Dedication: This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Brian Sword, who taught me a lot about dragons and to never shy away from the difficult.
  • Epigraph: There is one thing stronger than all those armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
  • Epigraph: And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most itimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Condensed version.

Works about this Work

The Shortlist Emily Millane , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , March vol. 14 no. 2 2004; (p. 43)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Our Woman in Timor Anne Partlon , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 27 December 2003; (p. 14)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Untitled Peter Muntz , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , November vol. 83 no. 5 2003; (p. 46)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Independent Woman Lizzie Corser (interviewer), 2003 single work interview
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 3 - 9 December no. 472 2003; (p. 14)
Love and Revolution Sandra McLean , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 November 2003; (p. 6)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Fight for Love and a New Nation Peter Pierce , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 November 2003; (p. 15)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Courage and Passion Kathy Hunt , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 November vol. 121 no. 6398 2003; (p. 69)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Love and Revolution Sandra McLean , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 November 2003; (p. 6)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Untitled Peter Muntz , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , November vol. 83 no. 5 2003; (p. 46)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Our Woman in Timor Anne Partlon , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 27 December 2003; (p. 14)

— Review of A Woman of Independence Kirsty Sword Gusmao , Rowena Lennox , 2003 single work autobiography
Kirsty's Sword of Justice Graham Cooke , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 October 2003; (p. 3a)
Timor's First Lady Takes a Stand Jennifer Moran , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 November 2003; (p. 12)
Independent Woman Lizzie Corser (interviewer), 2003 single work interview
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 3 - 9 December no. 472 2003; (p. 14)
Last amended 19 Sep 2006 13:21:39
Subjects:
  • c
    Timor-Leste,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Balibo,
    c
    Timor-Leste,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    Indonesia,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1990s
  • 2000-2002
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X