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Jack Bedson

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According to Wikipedia, John William "Jack" Bedson is an Australian writer, poet, children's picture book author, and former university librarian. Early life and education Bedson was born in the Sydney suburb of Redfern and raised in Sydney's inner suburbs. His father William John Alexander Bedson, a metal moulder, grew up in Caroline St., Redfern, on the famous 'Block'. His mother, Lucy Clymer, suffered as a victim of the White Stolen Generations twice, firstly as a child removed from her father and fostered out without schooling, then placed in the Watt St. Mental Hospital, Newcastle, for nine years from the ages of nine to eighteen; secondly, as a young unmarried woman whose baby was given to foster parents by St Anthony's Home for Unmarried Mothers, Croydon.

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