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		Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia in 1934.
		Conway taught at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1975, serving as Vice President from 1973 to 1975.
		For instance, Conway describes her experience in applying for a prestigious traineeship with the Department of External Affairs (the equivalent of foreign service) while she is at the University of Sydney; she is denied a position because of her gender.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Conway.html (972 words)

	Jill Ker Conway
		Her father was a sheep rancher, her mother a nurse, and Conway and her brothers were brought up in almost total isolation on Coorain, their 18,000-acre tract of land, which was eventually enlarged to 32,000 acres.
		Jill was educated at the all-female Abbotsleigh School and the University of Sydney, where she took an honors degree in history.
		Conway emigrated to the United States in 1960, and completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1969.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/read/truenorth/conway.html (246 words)

	coorain_responses_199
		Jill Ker Conway wrote this statement in a reflection on the purpose of writing her narrative, The Road from Coorain.
		Jill Ker Conway's narrative displays her liberated attitude about gender and education as she breaks this Australian bush value in her quest not to romance or adventure, but to intellectual fulfillment.
		Conway recognizes that, as a professor, she feels great anxiety because she is "crossing social boundaries." On her quest to intellectualism, she becomes liberated from the dominant gender roles of the conservative, Australian culture.
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/coorain_responses_199.htm (2895 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Woman's Education: Books: Jill Ker Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Conway's goals and visions as the first female president of elite Smith College during an era in which many women's institutions were going co-ed are the focus of this plainspoken and gracefully written third volume of her memoirs (following The Road from Coorain and True North).
		There are poignant passages, when Conway describes her "losses" and her husband's accelerating manic depression, but the main thrust is her forceful argument about the superior ability of women's colleges to liberate students from the shibboleths and constraints of the male-dominated point of view prevalent at most other institutions.
		Conway describes the events of her decade of leadership with a mixture of humor, intelligence, and insight.
	www.amazon.ca /Womans-Education-Jill-Ker-Conway/dp/0679421009 (1659 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Jill Ker Conway
		True North rejoined Jill's life as she embarked on graduate studies at Harvard, then followed her Canadian husband to an academic career in Toronto - until 1975, when Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, recruited Conway to redefine and redesign the distinguished 100-year-old institution.
		A Woman's Education recounts Conway's ten-year term as Smith's first woman president, boldly applying her lifetime's scholarship and passion to juggle the concerns of students, parents, faculty, and alumnae.
		Conway: It's still very much to provide an environment where women who are so-minded can be taught by a first-rate faculty in their own institution, which they and the alumnae own and have created.
	www.powells.com /authors/conway.html (3362 words)

	Books: Voice of Experience (The Boston Phoenix . 05-18-98)
		The impetus for Conway's inquiry is her observation that "virtually the only prose narratives which are accorded the suspension of disbelief today are the autobiographers' attempts to narrate the history of a real life," or biographies.
		Conway comments on many writers -- some familiar, some not -- focusing on texts that reveal "archetypal life scripts for men and for women which show remarkable persistence over time." But barely concealed beneath the stately critique is an argument for the importance of human "agency" in contesting just such prefabrications.
		Conway moves briskly through the works of an intriguing group of women, pointing to the paradox that "whenever women autobiographers are hiding behind the passive voice and the conditional tense, they are depicting events in which they acted forthrightly upon a preconceived, rational plan." Like other instructive insights, this assertion hangs unexplained.
	weeklywire.com /ww/05-18-98/boston_books_1.html (625 words)

	Jill Kathryn Ker Conway Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Jill Kathryn Ker Conway (born 1934) was a historian interested in the role of women in American history.
		Jill Kathryn Ker was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, a small town 75 miles from her parents' sheep station, on October 9, 1934.
		Conway articulated a concern that Smith tenure more women faculty, and she frequently publicized the plight of women scholars and the value of women's institutions in educational journals.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/jill-kathryn-ker-conway (999 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Jill Ker Conway (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The story opens in 1973 as Conway, unbeknownst to her, is first “looked over” as a prospective candidate by members of the Smith community, and continues as she assesses her passions and possibilities and agrees to the new challenge of heading the college in 1975.
		Jill gives her own answers to these questions with candor, humor, and acute attentiveness to the multifaceted nature of the sometimes bizarre and apparently impenetrable office of the president."
		Jill Ker Conway is the the first to have written of years as a college or university president.
	www.randomhouse.com.cob-web.org:8888 /knopf/authors/conway (1403 words)

	One Woman's Education
		Since 1989, Jill Ker Conway has been fascinating readers, especially women, with the compelling story of her journey from sheep ranchers' daughter in the wilds of Australia to president of one of this country's foremost liberal-arts institutions, Smith College.
		Jill!' and drumming on the floor to accentuate the shout." Although she had begun by assuming her accustomed asexual public demeanor, she "realized there could be no hiding behind a formal role.
		Conway is her most introspective, personal, and poetic in this chapter, as she explores her need to retreat from presidential duties.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/05028.html (1930 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| TRUE NORTH by Jill Ker Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Conway begins this second volume with her departure from Australia and her ambivalent feelings toward the character and traditions of her native country.
		Conway's narrative opens with her being accepted into a liberating community of young women and closes with her departure to conserve and foster another such community.
		Conway discovers that although Jane Addams and the other great women reformers she is studying were all extremely forceful characters, each wrote about herself as "the ultimate romantic female, all intuition and emotion" [p.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/true_north.asp (1337 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Jill Ker Conway
		Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969.
		"Jill Ker Conway offers an elegant and highly readable narrative of both women's education and her own amidst the feminist revolution of the late twentieth century.
		"Jill Ker Conway continues the absorbing and beautifully crafted account of her life's journey with her experiences as president of Smith.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/conway (1403 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE ROAD FROM COORAIN by Jill Ker Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Conway recounts the successive phases of her early life: her childhood on a remote sheep station, her teenage years in suburban Sydney, her education at the University of Sydney, and her decision to become a historian and to leave Australia for the United States.
		Conway's search for her own identity, as a woman and as an Australian, is a complex story written in a deceptively simple narrative style.
		Conway knew that "it was time to give up pretenses of the old British Empire, recognize that we were a Southern Pacific nation, and begin to study and understand the peoples and countries of our part of the globe" (p.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/road_from_coorain.asp (1115 words)

	Dr Jill Ker Conway - Senate - The University of Sydney
		Jill Ker Conway is of that rare and cherished breed – the university scholar and administrator, who has become pre-eminent as both.
		But for Jill Ker in 1958 this would have been ‘a bizarre charade’; for she was ‘an ambitious young woman facing a constrained female destiny’.
		Chancellor, I present Jill Kathryn Ker Conway for admission to the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, and I invite you to confer the degree upon her.
	www.usyd.edu.au /senate/committees/Conway.shtml (807 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| The Road From Coorain \| Essays + Interviews \| Jill Ker Conway
		Born in 1934 in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, Jill Ker Conway lived and worked on her family's 32,000-acre sheep farm in the Australian outback until her father drowned when she was eleven.
		Distraught and in debt due to a three-year drought, her mother moved Conway and her two brothers to Sydney.
		Conway received her Ph.D. in 1969 and taught at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1975.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/coorain/ei_conway.html (483 words)

	Amazon.ca: True North: a Memoir: Books: Jill Ker Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Conway continues her autobiography in this follow up to The Road from Coorain, picking up with her arrival in the U.S. to begin graduate studies at Harvard, and culminating with her being named the first woman president of Smith College in 1975.
		Jill Conway's True North did little to answer the question as to how a talented, ambitious, learned female copes with a manic-depressive husband.
		Conway's sensitivity is reflected in her fluid prose.
	www.amazon.ca /True-North-Jill-Ker-Conway/dp/0394281209 (977 words)

	Jill Ker Conway to Read From Her New Book at Smith
		With the publication in 1989 of "The Road From Coorain," Conway began sharing stories from early parts of her life, reflecting on her Australian childhood and her education in history and English at the University of Sydney.
		Conway's tenure at Smith was complicated by the usual pressures of institutional administration, including conflicts between herself, the faculty and the board of trustees.
		Conway quickly learned "that she had to be a political strategist, mediator and fundraiser," the review adds.
	www.smith.edu /newsoffice/releases/01-044.html (475 words)

	Jill Ker Conway
		In contrast, Conway argues, women have traditionally presented their life stories in the guise of the romantic heroine because this type was the only way women were allowed to present themselves.
		But Conway chooses works that illustrate her pattern without regard to the individual work's literary merit, as is evident in the contrast between McCourt's Angela's Ashes and McBride's The Color of Water.
		Yet Conway cites both of these works as illustrative of the pattern she's determined to demonstrate, with no concern over whether the works are examples of well-written literature.
	www.notesinthemargin.org /conway.html (1147 words)

	Radcliffe Quarterly: New Books
		These are the core questions posed in Jill Ker Conway's A Woman's Education, the third in her series of memoirs that began with her journey from her home in Australia (The Road from Coorain) and continued through her tenure as vice president at the University of Toronto (True North).
		What makes her work unique and accessible to a large audience is that, like a novelist, Conway is constantly exploring the motivations of her main character--herself.
		Conway describes herself as a good Hegelian, but she is more than that.
	www.radcliffe.edu /about/news/quarterly/200301/books1.html (556 words)

	Story Circle Reviews Books About Women's Lives
		Conway shows, for instance, that Jane Addams developed the the Hull House project after several active and energetic years of careful study of European social reform—and yet she writes about her idea in the passive voice, as if she were its agent, rather than its creator.
		In this way, Conway says, “Addams is able to conceal her own role in making the events of her life happen and to conform herself to the romantic image of the female...shaped by circumstances beyond her control” (p.
		Conway’s book is valuable for its deep and thoughtful discussion of the history of women’s stories, compared to and contrasted with the autobiographical stories of men.
	www.storycircle.org /BookReviews/reviews/memory.shtml (695 words)

	Jill Ker Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		From her descriptions of her poor childhood to her discovery of the world of intellectual, energetic women, Conway’s stirring words have inspired and will continue to inspire a renewed hope for the possibilities that can be ours.
		In this third book of her continuing memoir, Conway describes the pleasures, challenges, and constant surprises (good and bad) of her years as the first woman president of Smith College.
		Jill Ker Conway's autobiography traces her life from her childhood on a remote sheep station in the Australian outback, through her teenage years in Sydney, and ends as she is about to depart for the United States to enter Harvard graduate school.
	www.nwhp.org /tlp/biographies/conway/bio.html (643 words)

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		Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales.
		Conway served as Vice President for Internal Affairs at the University of Toronto from 1973 to 1975.
		Conway is also a Director of a number of major American companies, including Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc., Colgate-Palmolive Co. and Nike, Inc. Most recently she was named Chairman of Lend Lease Corporation.
	dc.indymedia.org /usermedia/text/4/12198.html (866 words)

	Boston.com / Beyond The Big Dig / National Panel
		Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia.
		Earlier in her career she taught 19th- and 20th-century American history at the University of Toronto, where she also became one of five university vice presidents.
		Conway is chairman of Lend Lease Corporation and has served as a director of a number of American companies, including Nike, Merrill Lynch, and Colgate-Palmolive.
	www.boston.com /beyond_bigdig/forum/jill_ker_conway.htm (408 words)

	Online NewsHour: Reflections on Autobiography -- June 1, 1998
		JILL KER CONWAY, Author, "When Memory Speaks:" Good to be here.
		JILL KER CONWAY: For women the story is the romance, even though it may not be about falling in love with a romantic hero, because women are socialized to tell their story as though it happened to them.
		JILL KER CONWAY: Well, for women I tell them to read the wonderful three-volume memoir of Janet Frame, a New Zealand woman.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/june98/conway_6-1.html (1029 words)

	Memoirs Focus of Women's History Month Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Jill Ker Conway with JFK Library Corps member Jasmine Figueroa.
		Conway's talk was part of the Library's commemoration of Women's History Month.
		Conway met with members of the Kennedy Library Corps and the Political Discussion Group at a tea reminiscent of the Kennedy campaign teas of the 1950s.
	www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/jillkc.htm (172 words)

	Jil Ker Conway Audiocassette; Voices From The Smithsonian Associates; Resident Associates, Smithsonian Institution
		Jill Ker Conway, historian and educator, analyzes the public's fascination with autobiography and the circumstances that led her to write her own history.
		Conway's most recent book, True North (Knopf), starts with her arrival from Australia in 1960 and continues through her acceptance of the presidency of Smith College in 1975.
		Professor Conway vividly portrays her acculturation to North America and her discovery of the world of intellectual, energetic women.
	smithsonianassociates.org /programs/cassettes/conway.HTM (222 words)

	Conway, Jill Ker
		Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales.
		The story of her early life is known to many who have read her best-selling memoir The Road from Coorain, and True North, the second installment of her memoir.
		Conway is a director of a number of American companies, as well as serving as a Trustee on several foundations and university boards.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~montfell/biographies/a_f/conwayj.html (156 words)

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