Brunswick baby-minder Minnie Thwaites eked out a precarious existence by taking in the unwanted babies of other women. But there is something shocking about her business that has ramifications long after her death.
In her first major work since the 2002 opera Lindy, Judith Rodriguez recounts in vivid verse and lyrics the bleak tragedy of Minnie Thwaites, a woman trying to make good during the 1890s Depression.
Format: A6 format (150 x 105 mm)
ISBN: 978-0-9871714-0-5
Extent: 160pp paperback
Genre: Australian non-fiction
Publication date: 2011, 2024 (revised edition)
Author bio: Judith Rodriguez has had ten books of poetry published, including New And Selected Poems from University of Queensland Press. Her poems have been translated into other languages, with collections in Romanian and French. She collaborated with Moya Henderson on the opera Lindy, produced in the Sydney Opera House in 2002, and with Robyn Archer on a play with songs Poor Johanna, produced in 1994. During the 1990s she was Series Editor at Penguin Books Australia, with a poetry list of 50 titles. She has taught in university English Departments on four continents, and most recently taught writing at Deakin University and at the Council of Adult Education in Melbourne, where she lives with her husband Tom Shapcott. She enjoys working for the writers’ association International PEN.
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