A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine missionary women in Australia
ANU Press, $65 pb, 390 pp
Australian History
A network of compulsion
The riddle of reconciliation
by Meredith Lake •
What kinds of stories are possible now about a mission community at the height of the assimilation era? How might scholars narrate the lives of religious women who ran an institution for Indigenous children?
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