![]() ![]() She is affectionate, sometimes sentimental about her childhood, but in the idyllic picture of barefoot siblings wandering the forest, weaving stories, are the seeds of an inner creativity and confidence that shaped her later character and philosophy. Moving frequently as her teaching mother changed jobs, living in country isolation with a large, cheerful, close-knit family, she grew up independent and imaginative. She was born in New Zealand in 1908, sixth of nine children. ![]() Now, in her autobiography, she is both listener and voice, drawing freely on memory and feeling to illuminate her life and work. their feeling became my feeling contagiously." As an educator she had the ability to listen to her students and to elicit their deepest concerns. IN I PASSED THIS WAY, Sylvia Ashton-Warner writes of her "innate disposition to become other people. OSBORNE is the author of Song of the Harp. ![]()
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