Artists, social climbers and mermaids: 10 Australian women who followed their dreams to the US in the early 20th century
Why would early 20th-century Australian women travel across the Pacific to the United States? And if they left, why wouldn’t they go to England, the “mother country”, where there was a proper cup of tea? The US was no feminist utopia. It did not give federal voting rights to women…
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