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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America
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'A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk.

'A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing so, they reoriented Australia towards the United States years before politicians began to lumber down the same path.

'For the artist Mary Cecil Allen, this meant spreading the word about American abstract expressionism. For the naturopath Alice Caporn, it meant evangelising fruit juices and salads. For the swimmer Isabel Letham, it was teaching synchronised swimming. Others imported the latest thinking in dentistry, fashion, economics, law, music, medicine and more. They were rebels, they were trailblazers, they were disruptors. Individually, they have extraordinary stories; together, they change the narrative of Australian history.' (Publication summary)

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: NewSouth Publishing , 2024 .
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      Extent: 352p.
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      • Published September 2024

      ISBN: 9781742238135
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Works about this Work

Book Review : Travelling to Tomorrow, Yves Rees Nina Culley , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , October 2024;
— Review of Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America Yves Rees , 2024 single work biography

'The stories of pioneering Australian women who sought adventures across the Pacific a century ago.'  (Introduction)
Tomorrow’s Women : How Ten Australian Women Made Lives in the Country That Epitomised Modernity Barbara Keys , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , September 2024;
— Review of Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America Yves Rees , 2024 single work biography 'The first Australian woman to serve as a judge was appointed in 1929 — but not in her native land. May Darlington Lahey took up the position in Los Angeles County Superior Court, not far from where she had completed her law degree. It would be another thirty-five years before Australia had its own woman judge.' (Introduction) 
Artists, Social Climbers and Mermaids : 10 Australian Women Who Followed Their Dreams to the US in the Early 20th Century Kerrie Davies , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 September 2024;
— Review of Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America Yves Rees , 2024 single work biography

'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 until 1920 – 18 years after Australia.' (Introduction)
A Questioning Lens : Falling through the Cracks of History Kirsten Tranter , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 468 2024; (p. 51-52)
— Review of Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America Yves Rees , 2024 single work biography 'Yves Rees’s accessible, entertaining study blends personal experience with rich archival research into a group of disparate women who followed their passion from Australia to the United States at a time when it was relatively easy for a white woman with talent and a few connections to just show up in Hollywood or New York and get to work. They are very different women – a surfer, a dentist, a concert pianist, a nurse, a decorator, an artist, a lawyer, and a writer – all fiercely courageous trailblazers in their own way. Travelling to Tomorrow weaves their stories together in a loosely chronological shape, using deep research to ground Rees’s imagining of these women’s hopes, dreams, achievements, and disappointments.'  (Introduction)
A Questioning Lens : Falling through the Cracks of History Kirsten Tranter , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 468 2024; (p. 51-52)
— Review of Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America Yves Rees , 2024 single work biography 'Yves Rees’s accessible, entertaining study blends personal experience with rich archival research into a group of disparate women who followed their passion from Australia to the United States at a time when it was relatively easy for a white woman with talent and a few connections to just show up in Hollywood or New York and get to work. They are very different women – a surfer, a dentist, a concert pianist, a nurse, a decorator, an artist, a lawyer, and a writer – all fiercely courageous trailblazers in their own way. Travelling to Tomorrow weaves their stories together in a loosely chronological shape, using deep research to ground Rees’s imagining of these women’s hopes, dreams, achievements, and disappointments.'  (Introduction)
Artists, Social Climbers and Mermaids : 10 Australian Women Who Followed Their Dreams to the US in the Early 20th Century Kerrie Davies , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 30 September 2024;
— Review of Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America Yves Rees , 2024 single work biography

'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 until 1920 – 18 years after Australia.' (Introduction)
Tomorrow’s Women : How Ten Australian Women Made Lives in the Country That Epitomised Modernity Barbara Keys , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , September 2024;
— Review of Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America Yves Rees , 2024 single work biography 'The first Australian woman to serve as a judge was appointed in 1929 — but not in her native land. May Darlington Lahey took up the position in Los Angeles County Superior Court, not far from where she had completed her law degree. It would be another thirty-five years before Australia had its own woman judge.' (Introduction) 
Book Review : Travelling to Tomorrow, Yves Rees Nina Culley , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , October 2024;
— Review of Travelling to Tomorrow : The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America Yves Rees , 2024 single work biography

'The stories of pioneering Australian women who sought adventures across the Pacific a century ago.'  (Introduction)
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