Australia The Road from Coorain, True North, and A Woman's Education Jill Ker Conway Feminist, historian, and former Smith College president Jill Ker Conway has chronicled her life of personal struggle and public success in a trio of plain-spoken memoirs. The Road from Coorain tells the story of her childhood in Australia until the age of 23, when she left for graduate school at Harvard University. As she moves from an isolated sheep ranch to crowded Sydney, she discovers that academic achievement is her path to independence amid her family's unraveling. Although lacking Coorain's exotic Australian setting, True North picks up where the first memoir left off, recounting Conway's arrival in America in 1960 up to her appointment as president of Smith College in 1975. Conway dares to detail her disappointments as well as her triumphs, revealing her struggle with her husband's manic depression and her own infertility even as her role as a spokeswoman and model for feminists grows. A Woman's Education rounds out the trio, focusing on her years as the first female president of Smith during an era in which many women's institutions were going co-ed. The "jolt of energy" she gets from being surrounded by several thousand young women carries her through disputes with faculty, students, alumnae, and administration alike as she redefines the college's programs to reflect the realities of women's lives. A lifelong champion of women's education, Conway sets forth her own story as both a cautionary and inspirational tale for women around the world.