Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread

Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread Softcover, ISBN 0868066915
Publisher: Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 2000
Used. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, black & white & colour photos, minor edgewear. 360 pp. Joice Loch was born in a cyclone in 1887 on a Queensland sugar plantation. She grew up in grinding poverty in Gippsland, but emerged from years of unpaid drudgery by writing a children’s book and freelance journalism. In 1918 she married Sydney Loch, author of a banned book on Gallipoli. They moved to Ireland, then to Poland to work with Quakers, then to Greece. Her inspired courage saved… (AUSTRALIAN BIOGRAPHY, WOMEN JOURNALISTS, AUTHORS, WORLD WAR 2 (WW2), REFUGEES, EUROPE, POLAND, GREECE, MIDDLE EAST, JUDAISM, JEWS, TURKEY, QUEENSLAND, VICTORIA, GIPPSLAND)