Ten hail marys : a memoir / Kate Howarth.
Publication details: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2010.Description: xii, 303 p. : ports. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780702237706 (pbk.)
- Howarth, Kate Lesley Kay, 1950- -- Childhood and youth
- St Margaret's Hospital (Sydney, N.S.W.)
- Abandoned children -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Unmarried mothers -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care -- New South Wales -- Biography
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- 305.89915 22
- HV700.5 .H68 2010
- Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's homepage: http://www.uqp.com.au.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 305.89915 HOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library | 66331 |
"For a long time in Australia unmarried mothers were expected to give up their babies for adoption. Kate Howarth fought to keep her son - and won." Frontcover.
Illustrations on endpapers.
An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes. Ten Hail Marys follows the first seventeen years of Kate Howarth's life in Sydney and country New South Wales. Raised by various Indigenous relatives, she is abandoned by her mother then her grandmother.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's homepage: http://www.uqp.com.au.
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Mode of access: Internet. Available at the publisher's homepage: http://www.uqp.com.au.
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