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Ruth Park

Born

in Auckland, New Zealand

August 23, 1923

Died

December 16, 2010

Genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Ruth Park was a New Zealand-born author, who spent most of her life in Australia. She was born in Auckland, and her family later moved to Te Kuiti further south in the North Island of New Zealand, where they lived in isolated areas.

During the Great Depression her working class father worked on bush roads, as a driver, on relief work, as a sawmill hand, and finally shifted back to Auckland as council worker living in a state house. After Catholic primary school Ruth won a partial scholarship to secondary school, but this was broken by periods of being unable to afford to attend. For a time she stayed with relatives on a Coromandel farming estate where she was treated like a serf by the wealthy landowner until she told the rich woman what she ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 15,523 ratings · 1,101 reviews · 83 distinct works • Similar authors

	Playing Beatie Bow 3.95 avg rating — 5,404 ratings — published 1980 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Harp in the South 4.02 avg rating — 4,811 ratings — published 1948 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poor Man's Orange 4.20 avg rating — 1,079 ratings — published 1949 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Muddle-Headed Wombat by Ruth Park, Noela Young (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 666 ratings — published 1963 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Harp In The South Novels 4.28 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Missus 3.69 avg rating — 628 ratings — published 1985 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swords and Crowns and Rings 4.23 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 1977 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Sister Sif 4.03 avg rating — 426 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Fence Around the Cuckoo (Ruth Park's Memoirs #1) 4.12 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishing in the Styx (Ruth Park's Memoirs #2) by Ruth Park, Beverley Dunn (Narrated by) 4.13 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ruth Park (?)

“You're a hidjus old pollywobble!”
― Ruth Park, The Muddle-Headed Wombat

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“The announcer, in milky tones, rolled out the commercial; it was all about some sort of washing powder that made laundry days a mere frolic in the backyard”
― Ruth Park, The Harp in the South

tags: humor, humour

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“What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.”
― Ruth Park

tags: feminism, girls

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June 2019 Group Read - Classics

We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn

30 votes, 40.5%

The Harp in the South by Ruth Park

25 votes, 33.8%

Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

19 votes, 25.7%

74 total votes

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