This is the true story of how a girl in Australia was taken from her parents and educated in a Catholic mission. In 1965, she was forced to become a domestic on a wealthy estate, where she woke before dawn every day and slaved for fifteen hours. She ate off a tin plate and slept on a shabby cot above a garage. All because of the color of her skin. This sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen anymore. Here is the frightening yet victorious story of how it did and how that young woman who fought her way out. "[An] affecting memoir...Her harrrowing story, dispassionately told, could well be fiction." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Wandering Girl

Ward, Glenyse

Biographies & Memoirs

Fawcett

From her mission upbringing, Glenyse Ward is sent to work as a domestic in a wealthy Western Australian farming district. This is a personal account of Aboriginal experience, an honest account of injustice.

WANDERING GIRL

Magabala Books

An autobiographical account of an Australian aborigine, brought up in an orphanage and sent to work in a rich white family's house where she is treated virtually like a slave

Teen & Young Adult

Henry Holt Co.

Literature & Fiction

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Wandering Girl

WANDERING GIRL

Wandering Girl

Wandering Girl