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This issue we ask our contributors… What book character did you most want to be when you were growing up?
Annie Payne
In their own words, page 28 Norah, from Mary Grant Bruce’s Billabong series of books about a young girl growing up on a cattle property in rural Victoria, was my heroine from the age of eight when I received A Little Bush Maid for Christmas.
Alice Johnson
A mother’s day, page 50 It’s a close tie between Beatrice’s quick wit in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Tolkien’s Éowyn from The Lord Of The Rings for her bravery to defeat the witch-king and fulfill the prophesy that he would not fall “by the hand of man”.
John Bailey Who was the real Ludwig Leichhardt?, page 66 My childhood dream was to don the baggy green for Australia. Now in my sixties, I still await a call from the national selectors. So my book has to have a sporting hero: Tom Brown’s Schooldays.
Inside History | Jan-Feb 2012 |
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