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ANONYMOUS JONES'
AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION NEWSLETTER #30
ARE THERE UPPITY WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA?
If you think about it, there's no real reason to believe
that Australia doesn't have its share of uppity women,
and sure enough, it does. Female uppityness goes back a
long way in the land down-under. In fact, even writing
about liberated women has a long and proud history; Sir
Julius Vogel wrote a science fiction book there in 1889
which describes a world in which the President of the
United States is a woman and whose hero, Hilda Fitzherbert,
is a female member of the Australian Parliament. Hilda's
bill to permit a woman to become Australian Emperor is
vetoed by the emperor of the time, and the leader of the
opposition, one Lord Reginald Paramatta, tries to kidnap
and marry her AGAINST HER WILL. Valiant Hilda eventually
prevails, however. She marries the Emperor instead, and
he in turn withdraws his veto so that their daughter can
become Emperor in her turn. Sound familiar? Maybe us
male types should reconsider and emigrate instead to a
safer place, maybe Cincinatti?
(C) 1985 by Anonymous Jones. All comments are welcome. Leave
them in the <C>omments Message Base addressed to ANONYMOUS JONES.