To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity

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Between 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.

To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity Review

I've only read some of the first chapter, but it has already made me frustrated with the way Woollacott expresses her ideas.

In her writing she:
- States the obvious, sometimes twice in a row
- Relies on ready-made, rigidly academic terms
- Has little eye for the subtleties of the situations she describes (she seems to need to fit everything into a framework that makes perfect logical sense. But this makes her writing hollow and way too rigid for me to feel like I'm really learning anything)
- Her examples and quotations don't say much

The best part of the chapter was the introduction, which mainly consisted of insights and used few to no academic terms. I gave the book three stars because I obviously don't have the full picture from reading so little.

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