Analysis of "Briar Rose" by Jane Yolen and linking it to poetry by Peter Skrzynecki

Title: Briar Rose
Creator/ Composer: Jane Yolen
Published: Tom Doherty Associates, November 1993
Text Type: Novel
Source: Library
Summary: A young woman, Rebecca, promises her dying grandmother that she will uncover her past, as she believes she is Briar Rose. Resultantly she becomes intent on honouring her word and begins thoroughly examining every lead, despite objections from family, she continues on in respect for her grandmother.
Following a tarnished paper trail Rebecca is lead towards the story of a woman she no longer recognises as her grandmother, but an unknown refugee called 'p…