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

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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.