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[End Page 1] In Mary Bradford Whiting’s A Daughter of the Empire (1919), Christina Strafford travels to England after her father’s death to live with his cousin, Lady Agatha Strafford. The young Australian woman is dismayed to find the Mother Country “a little fussed-up place where you can’t so much as turn round without knocking something over with your skirts”. England is a place where people brood over petty problems and imagined slights because they “have too many little things in their lives and too much time to spend on the little things” (Whiting 55 and 131). Although Desmond, the younger son of the aristocratic Strafford family, falls in love with her, Christina–an outback girl brought up in a mining camp who has dealt resourcefully with floods, fires and other natural and human disasters–finds herself generally regarded as an uncouth Colonial and is later banished from the manor because of a silly misunderstanding. Undaunted by her relatives’ rejection, she

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