Manuscript of Labumore (Elsie Roughsey), 'An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New'. These boxes include the original handwritten and typed manuscripts, edited drafts, deletions from edited version, final typescript of the book, and the editorial folder.
An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New
Paul Memmott
(editor),
Robyn Horsman
(editor),
Fitzroy
:
McPhee Gribble
,
1984
Z460591
1984
single work
autobiography
'Elsie Roughsey was born into the Lardil tribe on Mornington Island in 1923 soon after the first missionaries arrived. Raided in a dormitory mission and in the traditional life of her tribe, she writes about power, religion, love and marriage, childbirth, medicine, education, crime and punishment across both worlds.'
'This is a book of great charm - and a rare and significant portrait of an Aboriginal life during a period of acute and often traumatic change.' (Source: Back cover)
