10 Australian women who followed their dreams to the US in the early 20th century
- Written by Kerrie Davies, Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney
Rose Cumming (left) and Edith Griffiths (1915).Bain News Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsWhy 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...





