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Watchlist. The semi-biographical story of Australian feminist Jill Ker-Conway, from her childhood and struggles with an overbearing mother to her romance with a U.S. mining engineer. Juliet ...
The Road from Coorain Inhalt. Für den Film The Road from Coorain und dessen Regie ist Brendan Maher verantwortlich. Zu den Darstellern im Film gehören Alexandra Galwey, John Howard und andere ...
In 2002, the PBS program Masterpiece Theater used The Road from Coorain as the basis for a film. She also wrote When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography. She edited several books including Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women and In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place—or to a dream—can at once liberate and imprison.
Plot Summary. The Road from Coorain is a 1989 autobiographical novel by Jill Ker Conway. Ker Conway is perhaps best known as the first female president of Smith College, the largest of the Seven Sisters colleges. The book details Jill's upbringing in Australia, up through her early adulthood and acceptance to Radcliffe College.
Based on the memoir of best-selling writer Jill Ker Conway, this lushly photographed drama tells the fascinating story of Conway’s early life growing up on a sheep ranch in the harsh Australian outback under the influence of her domineering mother.
