Written while she was still a teenager, My Brilliant Career catapulted young Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (writing as Miles Franklin) into worldwide fame. In fact, the sudden popularity of the book in Australia (and the perceived closeness of the plot to her own family history) caused Franklin to withdraw the book from publication until after her death. The story centers on Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia whose family is plunged into debt by their alcoholic father. Young Sybylla's story follows her romance with suitor Harold Beecham, her forced servitude to one of her father's creditors and her attempts to become a famous writer. Long hailed as one of the most popular and celebrated works in Australian literary history, My Brilliant Career is presented here in its original and unabridged format.
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978-1-958943-11-3 (9781958943113)
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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 - 19 September 1954), who published her works under the name Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901. Though she continued to write and publish stories and novels throughout her career, her next major success - All That Swagger - was not published until 1936. Franklin spent much of her career attempting to help her fellow Australian authors and promote Australian literature, even going so far as to endow a major literary prize awarded to authors who wrote about "Australian life in any of its phases" known as the Miles Franklin Award. Franklin never married - though she had many suitors throughout her life - and died in 1954 at the age of 74. Her ashes were scattered in Jounama Creek, Talbingo close to the home where she was born.
