Performing Arts Musician, Songwriter James Hetfield James Alan Hetfield (b. 1963) is an American musician and songwriter best known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for the heavy metal band Metallica. One his mother died, sixteen year old James went to live with an older brother. Hetfield is mainly known for his intricate rhythm playing, but occasionally performs lead guitar duties and solos, both live and in the studio. Hetfield co-founded Metallica in October 1981 after answering an advertisement by drummer Lars Ulrich in the Los Angeles newspaper The Recycler. Metallica has won nine Grammy Awards and released ten studio albums, three live albums, four extended plays and 24 singles. In 2009, Hetfield was ranked at no. 8 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists and no. 24 by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. In Guitar World's poll, Hetfield was placed as the 19th greatest guitarist of all time, as well as being placed second (along with Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett) in The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists poll of the same magazine. Rolling Stone placed Hetfield as the 87th greatest guitarist of all time. External Website

Authors D A Second Life ➝ The Last Thing He Told Me ➝ Moll Flanders ➝ Joy and Josephine ➝ The Way It Is Now ➝ Akin ➝ Bodies of Light ➝ Died in the Wool ➝ Gravity Let Me Go ➝ Family likeness ➝ Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade ➝ The Language of Flowers ➝ Sanctuary ➝ The Tearsmith (Novel) ➝ Too Old For This ➝ Ignoring Gravity ➝ The Ghost of Lily Painter ➝ The Inheritance of Loss ➝ The Sunken Road ➝ Cloud Cuckoo Land ➝ Solace of the Road ➝ Stolen ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir Care to University Reeny Jurcyszyn 2015 Reeny talks about her journey from high school (while in foster care) to a vocational college (TAFE), to paid work and on to university to become a social worker. At the time of writing this contribution, Reeny had completed her PhD. External Website

Television Shows Australian Story: On the Brink - Bon Scott 2022 Australian Bon Scott, lead singer of the successful AC/DC rock bank, died when he was only 33 years of age. Bon Scott is still regarded as one of the world's best rock and roll performers. In the program, Bon Scott's life and career is explored through the memories of his younger brother, Derek, and a former bandmate, Bruce Howe. External Website

Television Shows Bergerac 2025 Bergerac (2025) is a reboot of the eponymous police procedure that ran from 1981 until 1991. In this new series, a young woman has been murdered and, later, her baby abducted. The baby is quickly located and we find out she is an orphan and was adopted. Disturbingly, it is the baby’s adoptive father who makes a ransom demand for her return. *Spoiler alert* At the end of the series, the baby is being formally considered for adoption by the couple who originally took her from an environment they considered toxic. External Website

Authors W Wuthering Heights ➝ Poe's Cat ➝ Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul ➝ All the Colors of the Dark ➝ The Nickel Boys ➝ The Dictionary of Lost Words ➝ Orphan Rock ➝ Before We Were Yours ➝ The Lost Girls of Willowbrook ➝ Marriages ➝ Winter Sonata ➝ Morvern Callar ➝ The Wide, Wide World ➝ The Nowhere Child ➝ The Picture of Dorian Gray ➝ Extinctions ➝ The Yield ➝ Juice ➝ The Life She Was Given ➝ The Echoes ➝ My Name Is Leon ➝ One Christmas Night ➝ Every Good Deed and Other Stories ➝ The Underground Railroad (novel) ➝ Time of the Child ➝ The Yellow Papers ➝ Swallow the Air ➝ Coal River ➝ What She Left Behind ➝ Back to Top

Radio & Podcast Douglass on Slavery Talking Politics: History of Ideas 2020 Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) escaped slavery and became a leader in the abolitionist movement in the US. Separated from his mother as a baby, he only saw her a few times before she died when Frederick was 7. Frederick's father was likely a white man. In this podcast, David Runciman discusses Douglass' life and thinking, External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience The Lost Child Caryl Phillips 2015 The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its centre is Monica Johnson, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her bitter struggle to raise her sons in the shadow of the wild moors of the north of England. Intertwined with her modern narrative is the ragged childhood of Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff, the anti-hero of Wuthering Heights and one of literature’s most enigmatic lost boys. The Lost Child is bookended by two scenes that feature the seven-year-old Heathcliff. Left purposefully mysterious by Emily Brontë, his origins are here fleshed out by Phillips, who makes him the illegitimate son of Mr Earnshaw by an African former slave. In the early scene, the boy’s mother is dying of disease in Liverpool; the novel ends with her son being led over the moors by Mr Earnshaw to Wuthering Heights. External Website

Fiction by Care Experienced authors Nights at the Circus Angela Carter 1984 Nights at the Circus (1984), winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel focuses on the life and exploits of orphan Sophie Fevvers, a woman who is – or so she would have people believe – a Cockney virgin, hatched from an egg laid by unknown parents and ready to develop fully fledged wings. At the time of the story, she has become a celebrated aerialiste, and she captivates the young journalist Jack Walser, who runs away with the circus and falls into a world that his journalistic exploits had not prepared him to encounter. Nights at the Circus was the first to bring Angela Carter widespread acclaim. External Website

News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles Children evacuated during Vietnam War's Operation Babylift are on a quest to find their families ABC News (Australia) 2015 In this ABC News (Australia) article, Elizabeth Wray and Rohan Samara talk about the search for their Vietnamese families. Both were amongst the thousands of children evacuated from Vietnam as part of Operation Babylift 50 years ago. Both were also part of a group of 13 adoptees who, last month, cycled from Ho Chi Minh City to Soc Trang – almost 300 kilometres – over 4 days. The cycling trip was organised by Viet Nam Family Search, a group set up by another Vietnamese-Australian adoptee Sue-Yen Luiten. Sue-Yen Luiten is hoping there will be “some really positive results from reuniting biological families." External Website

Authors G Living with the past: the creation of the stolen generation positionality ➝ A childhood on paper Managing access to child care files by post-care adults ➝ More Than Our Childhoods: A survivor-led participatory approach to out-of-home care life story research ➝ Fostered Voices: Narratives of US Foster Care ➝ Reflexivity and Lived Experience of Out-of-Home Care: Positionality as an Early Parenthood Researcher ➝ Back to Top

Poets Emilia Lanier Emilia Lanier Emilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman in England to declare herself a poet. She published Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum in 1611. Baptized Aemilia Bassano in 1569, Aemilia was the daughter of a court musician Baptist Bassano and his wife, Margaret Johnson. After her father died when Aemilia was 7, she spent some of her childhood living with Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent. Whether Bertie fostered the child or whether Aemilia was a servant is not clear, but it was while living with Bertie that the girl received a formal education and learned Latin. At the age of 18, Aemilia became the mistress of Henry Carey, Queen Elizabeth 1’s Lord Chamberlain. She was apparently married off toAlphonso Lanyer, a court musician, after she became pregnant by Henry Carey in 1592. Alphonso Lanyer’s death in 1613 and Emilia Lanyer supported herself for several years by running a school. External Website

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Performing Arts Violinist, teacher, composer Anna Maria della Pietà Anna Maria della Pieta (c1696 - 1782) was an Italian violinist, teacher and composer who lived her whole life in the Venetian orphanage Ospedale della Pieta. The Ospedale della Pieta was a convent, orphanage & music school in Venice established in the 14th century. By the 17th and 18th centuries it was well known for its all-female orchestra which became a major tourist attraction, in part because of Antonio Vivaldi who was the resident composer and violin teacher from 1703-1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Anna Maria della Pieta was an orphan living in the Ospedale della Pieta from approximately 1696. By the time she was 8 her talent for music was noticed and she was taught to play the violin by Vivaldi. According to sources, many of the concertos written by Vivaldi were written for Anna Maria. Anna Maria composed music and performed publicly for more than 60 years. Her music attracted tourists to hear the orchestra and to hear her performances. External Website

Writers Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson; (1810 – 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. Elizabeth Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson in Chelsea, London, to Unitarian parents, Elizabeth Holland and William Stevenson. Elizabeth Holland died in 1811 and baby Elizabeth was despatched to live with her mother’s older sister, Aunt Lumb, in Knutsford, Cheshire, about 31km from Manchester. Although William Stevenson remarried, Elizabeth visited her father rarely. Gaskell's novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor. Her work is of interest to social historians as well as readers of literature. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–53), North and South (1854–55), and Wives and Daughters (1865), each having been adapted for television by the BBC. External Website

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Writers Jackie Kay (writer) 1961- Jacqueline Margaret Kay, (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. They adopted Jackie in 1961, having already adopted her brother, Maxwell, about two years earlier. Jackie and Maxwell also have siblings who were brought up by their biological parents. Kay has won a number of awards, including the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011. Since 2016, she has been Scots Makar, the national poet laureate of Scotland. She was appointed as chancellor of the University of Salford in 2015. External Website

Films/Videos The Blind Side 2009 A story featuring Michael Oher who played for the Baltimore Ravens of the US National Football League. The story follows a homeless Michael who has been through the foster care system being taken in by the Tuohy family who encourage him in his football career. External Website

Poets Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift onathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift's father died in Dublin about seven months before his namesake was born.He died of syphilis, which he said he got from dirty sheets when out of town. At the age of one, child Jonathan was taken by his wet nurse to her hometown of Whitehaven, Cumberland, England. He said that there he learned to read the Bible. His nurse returned him to his mother, still in Ireland, when he was three. His mother returned to England after his birth, leaving him in the care of his uncle Godwin Swift (1628–1695), he sent the younger Swift to Kilkenny College age six, Swift graduated in 1682, when he was 15. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Song of the Sea Maid Rebecca Mascull 2016 In the 18th century, Dawnay Price is an anomaly. An educated foundling, a woman of science in a time when such things are unheard-of, she overcomes her origins to become a natural philosopher. Against the conventions of the day, and to the alarm of her male contemporaries, she sets sail to Portugal to develop her theories. There she makes some startling discoveries - not only in an ancient cave whose secrets hint at a previously undiscovered civilisation, but also in her own heart. The siren call of science is powerful, but as war approaches she finds herself pulled in another direction by feelings she cannot control. External Website