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A network of compulsion

The riddle of reconciliation
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April 2021, no. 430

A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine missionary women in Australia by Katharine Massam

ANU Press, $65 pb, 390 pp

A network of compulsion

The riddle of reconciliation
by
April 2021, no. 430

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?

Meredith Lake reviews 'A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine missionary women in Australia' by Katharine Massam

A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine missionary women in Australia

by Katharine Massam

ANU Press, $65 pb, 390 pp

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