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Artists Madge Gill ​ ​ Born 19 January 1882, an illegitimate child in East Ham, Essex, (now Greater London), Madge Gill spent much of her early years in seclusion because her family could not tolerate the embarrassment. At age nine, despite her mother still being alive, she was placed in a Barnardo’s Girls’ Village Home orphanage at Barkingside, Ilford, Essex. She was sent by Barnardo's to Canada in 1896 and then worked as a domestic servant, nursemaid and nurse before she married. Following her death in 1961, thousands of Madge's drawings were found in her home and later exhibited internationally. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir A personal journey towards healing and redress Ryszard Szablicki 2011 Recipes for Survival: Stories of Hope and Healing by Survivors of the State ‘Care’ System in Australia is a collection of stories by those who have grown up in care in Australia during the 20th century and is therefore contribution to a growing body of literature on the experiences of the Forgotten Australians. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Poum and Alexandre: A Paris Memoir Catherine de Saint Phalle 2016 Shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize, this is a memoir of living with deeply flawed parents. The mother of English born Australian writer, Catherine de Saint Phalle (b. 1956), was in kinship care for half her childhood. Catherine was in foster care for some months. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France Renee Roth-Hano 1989 Touch Wood chronicles the life of nine-year-old Renee Roth and her two sisters as they seek refuge from the Nazi terror with a group of Catholic nuns External Website

Actors Barry Keoghan ​ ​ Barry Keoghan (; born 18 October 1992) is an Irish actor. He was in foster care for seven years as a child. Then, when he was twelve his mother died and went to live with relatives. Barry Keoghan has appeared in the films Dunkirk, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, for which he won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor and nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male; and Trespass Against Us. He also played the "heartless cat killer" Wayne in the RTÉ drama Love/Hate.Keoghan is an ambassador for Dior. In 2020, he was listed at number 27 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. External Website

Academic Books & Book Chapters Care Less Lives - The story of the rights movement of young people in care Stein et al 2011 Professor Mike Stein (Author), Fran Orford (Illustrator). Care Less Lives tells the story of the rights movement of young people in care in England. It relates how, from 1973, young people came together to talk about their care, support each other and campaign to improve their lives in care. From the small beginnings of the Leeds Ad-Lib group, the story tells how the word was spread by Who Cares?, the National Association of Young People in Care, Black and In Care, and, currently by the campaigns of A National Voice. The story describes how young people during these years experienced their care, including their feelings of stigma and control, as well as, for some young people, abuse at the hands of those who were meant to care for them. But it is also a story of altruism and collective resilience, of how young people came together to improve the lives of other young people, to make their lives, less care less. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Against the Odds. Care Leavers at University Deidre Michell et al. 2014 Against the Odds is an inspiring collection of stories. Each care experienced contiributor faced considerable obstacles - disruptive education, low expectations, family dysfunction, trauma, poverty, stigma - on their way to and through university. Contributors: Reeny Jurczyszyn, Gregory P. Smith, Kimberley Hobbs, Pam Petrilli, Deidre Michell, Rachael Romero, David Jackson, Karen Laura-Lee Wilson, Frank Golding, Stacey Page, Davida Bache, Ryszard Szablicki, Judith Anne Brooker, Amanda Gargula External Website

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Autobiography/Memoir Tina Turner: My Love Story Tina Turner 2018 In this autobiography, Tina Turner tells the story of a truly remarkable life in the spotlight.From her early years picking cotton in Nutbush, Tennessee and living in kinship care, to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner, and finally to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir The WOTS Family Cheryl Campbell 2009 WOTS stands for Ward of the State. Cheryl was born in 1961, in Mt Isa, Queensland. She first lived with her grandparents, but when she went to live with her mother, her mother's partner was physically and sexually abusive. Running away to escape being raped by the man set Sharon up for becoming a Ward of the State. In many ways being a Ward of the State and living in foster care or in a residential care facility was far preferable to living with her mother and various dubious partners. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir The Continuing Education of the Artist as a Mature Woman Rachael Romero 2015 As a teenager, Rachael spent 9 months living in one of the infamous Magdalene Laundries. In this chapter she tells of going to Art School, but also of needing to escape Australia. Living in America, Rachael practiced her art and became an activist. She later did a Masters Degree at Antioch University and became an art teacher. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir The Child She Bare Hannah Brown 1919 Hannah Brown was brought to the Foundling Hospital in 1866. She wrote an account of her childhood experiences which was published anonymously The Child She Bare, A Foundling (London, Headley, 1919). She is quite negative about her time in the Foundling. And for when it was written many of her observations are spot on. She writes about the stigma and how ‘children’s happiness and future welfare is sacrificed, even to the extent of their mother’s name, nationality – thrown in the world without a relative or friend to confide in…and have no right to the stigma attached to them.’ External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Nine Clouds Amanda Gargula 2010 Amanda tells the story of her time in the Moralta Childrens Home, in a cottage home and on her own after she left state care. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Mommie Dearest (autobiography) Christina Crawford 1978 An expose of abuse experienced by adoptee, Christina Crawford, at the hands of her adoptive mother, American film star Joan Crawford. External Website

Actors Sylvester Stallone ​ ​ Sylvester Enzio Stallone, born Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, July 6, 194, is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Because of his parents' difficult relationship, he spent considerable time in foster care until he was five and moved in with his father. After his beginnings as a struggling actor for a number of years upon arriving to New York City in 1969 and later Hollywood in 1974, he won his first critical acclaim as an actor for his co-starring role as Stanley Rosiello in The Lords of Flatbush. Stallone's Rocky films were box office successes, and he is the only actor in US cinema history to have regularly starred in box office successes over 50 fifty years. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Plot 29: A Love Affair With Land Allan Jenkins 2016 Personal narrative blended with a gardener’s log-book, in Plot 29 Allan Jenkins, the Editor of Observer Food Monthly, organically weaves together memoir and memory from his childhood to the recent past. He discusses his time in foster care and the importance of that to his experience as a gardener in adulthood. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir A Tribute to Daphne David Jackson 2011 Recipes for Survival: Stories of Hope and Healing by Survivors of the State ‘Care’ System in Australia is a collection of stories by those who have grown up in care in Australia during the 20th century and is therefore contribution to a growing body of literature on the experiences of the Forgotten Australians. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Don't Ever Tell: Kathy's Story Kathy O'Beirne 2006 Kathy O'Beirne's earliest memories are of being battered and sexually abused. Aged only eight, Kathy was removed from the family home and incarcerated in a series of institutions. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Beyond the Orphanage. A journey of hope and aspirations Deborah Dzifah Tamakloe 2020 Beyond the Orphanage tells Deborah’s story from when she first went into foster care. Deborah was born into a Catholic polygamous family in Nkawkaw, south Ghana, which means, as she says, she had “three additional mothers”. One day, her life changed inexplicably; her mother took Deborah to live with a friend in a nearby village, supposedly because school was closer and Deborah would not be punished for arriving later than 7am anymore. Deborah returned to her mother on weekends and for holidays. In January 2005, about a year into this new living arrangement, 11-year-old Deborah was expecting to go to boarding school but was instead taken to the Baptist School Complex and Orphanage (BASCO). External Website

Autobiography/Memoir A Fortunate Life - Fremantle Press A B Facey 1981 Albert Facey grew up in kinship care. He was first sent to work at the age of 8, become a labourer, a farmer, a jackaroo, and serving in WWI. External Website