To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and ModernityBetween 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage "home," seeking opportunities beyond those available to them in the Australian colonies or dominion. In tracing the experiences of these women, this volume reveals hitherto unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
White Colonialness Privilege and Modernity | 19 |
Gendered Space and Colonialism | 47 |
Australian Womens Neighborhoods Networks and Associations | 73 |
Australian Womens Metropolitan Activism and Commonwealth Feminism | 105 |
Constructing Colonial Imperial and National Identities | 139 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Aboriginal women Ada Crossley Adelaide Alice Grant Rosman Annie Duncan April Art in Australia Austral Australian culture Australian feminists Australian Girl Australian Musical Australian women Australians in London Barbara Baynton became boarding houses Britain British Australian British Commonwealth League British Empire British-Australasian career Chelsea claimed Colombo conference connections decades dominion women England English especially Everylady's Journal example feminism feminist Gender History Home imperial metropolis included Indian interwar January journalist July June Katharine Susannah Prichard lived Lone Hand Louise Mack Lyceum Club Margaret Margaret Preston Marilyn Lake Mary Melba Melbourne metropolitan modernity national identity networks nineteenth century numbers Papers Peggy Glanville-Hicks political professional race racial returned to Australia Rischbieth Royal sexual singer social Society South Africa South Wales status Stella Bowen Sydney tion University Press urban Victoria Vida Goldstein voyage White Australia policy white Australian white colonial women women artists women in London World writer Zealander