| ISBN |
9780702266003 (paperback) |
| Classification |
994 GIN |
| Personal Name |
Ginibi, Ruby Langford |
| Title |
Don't take your love to town / Ruby Langford Ginibi ; introduction by Nardi Simpson. |
| Variant Title |
Do not take your love to town |
| Production & Copyright Details |
St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023. |
| ©2023 |
| Physical Description |
xiv, 390 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| Series |
First Nations classics |
| Note |
First published in 1988 by University of Queensland Press" --Title page verso. |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions. |
| Summary Note |
Ruby Langford Ginibi's remarkable talent for storytelling grabbed the attention of both black and white Australians when she released Don't Take Your Love to Town, which has gone on to become a bestseller and is now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir. Don't Take Your Love to Town is a story of courage in the face of poverty and tragedy. Ruby recounts losing her mother when she was six, growing up in a mission in northern New South Wales and leaving home when she was fifteen. She lived in tin huts and tents in the bush and picked up work on the land while raising nine children virtually single-handedly. Later she struggled to make ends meet in the Koori areas of Sydney. Don't Take Your Love to Town is a brilliant memoir that will open your eyes and heart to an extraordinary woman's story. |
| Subject-Personal Name |
Ginibi, Ruby Langford |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Women -- Biography |
| Bundjalung people E12 |
| History - Biographies - Indigenous - Autobiographies |
| Religions - Christianity - Missions |
| Social behaviour - Socialisation - Child rearing |
| Subject - Geographic Name |
Coraki (NSW N Coast SH56-03) |
| Casino (NSW N Coast SH56-03) |
| Bonalbo (NSW N Coast SH56-02) |
| Coonabarabran (N NSW SH55-16) |
| Redfern (Inner Sydney NSW SI56-05) |
| Subject - Genre |
Autobiographies |
| Added Entry - Personal Name |
Simpson, Nardi writer of introduction. |
