One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman. The Road From Coorain is about Everywoman, for it is about childhood loneliness, anguished parent-child relationships, dawning sensibility, discovering a vocation, and finding one's own sense of self.

Reissue of an internationally bestselling memoir of the author's childhood on an isolated sheep-farm in Australia. The author, whose other works include TWomen Reformers and American Culture' and TThe Female Experience in 18th and 19th Century America', has successly pursued an academic career in the USA. First published in 1989.

Reissue of an internationally bestselling memoir of the author's childhood on an isolated sheep-farm in Australia. The author, whose other works include TWomen Reformers and American Culture' and TThe Female Experience in 18th and 19th Century America', has successly pursued an academic career in the USA. First published in 1989.