The Road From Coorain - Jill Ker Conway

The Road From Coorain By Jill Ker Conway 

 From The Norton Book of Woman's Lives by Phyllis Ross. 

    Jill was born into a family of farmers in which she lived with her mother and father. Her father, had struggled with mental health issues, and to get his mind clearer and distracted he would go out to the fields to tend to his farm and animals. Her mother had loved her daughter but did push her a little too hard at such a young age. With her mother and father in bad mental and physical health, Jill had to grow up very fast and learn how to take care of the ones that were supposed to be taking care of her. 

Jill Ker Conway

    After the passing of her father, her mother was speculated to possibly be "selling Coorain" (167) or maybe actually being able to take care of it with the help of others, if they could afford it. Her mother had put a lot of pressure on Jill to learn these jobs and take the responsibilities on her own, which must have taken a major toll on her development. Having to mature fast certainly shows once she becomes grows up and can look back on these times in her life to see how far she's come. She, among many other women we have read about in this book, shows a great amount of women empowerment.