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My Brilliant Career

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By (author): Miles Franklin

Miles Franklins debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn closely modelled on Franklin herself as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life. Growing up on her parents outback farm, Sybylla is desperate to read, write, sing and achieve great things. Yet her aspirations for a brilliant career are persistently thwarted, first by the arduous demands of rural family life, and later by the shackles of a proposed conventional marriage to the wealthy Harold Beecham. With only her brilliant, conflicted mind to guide her, Sybylla is forced to define a life on her own terms.

My Brilliant Career is acclaimed for capturing the spirit of Australia at the turn of the twentieth century. The struggles of its fiery, precocious protagonist shine a light on the emergent womens rights and suffrage movement during this period, and memorably evoke the intensity of youth.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 30 Jan 2025

Product Details
  • Weight: 750g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 204mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241699584

About Miles Franklin

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was born in Old Talbingo Australia. Despite a difficult and isolated childhood she grew up in the impoverished bush regions of New South Wales with limited education she completed her first book at the age of just nineteen. The ironically titled My Brilliant Career (1901) was published under a male pseudonym to immediate success and acclaim. Its story of an impassioned ambitious heroine frustrated by rural bush life resonated with young Australian women and established Franklin as a bold new feminist voice in literature.Following the publication of her debut novel Franklin moved to Sydney then on to America and Britain. She wrote and published a total of nineteen books across her lifetime as well as working as an editor and womens advocate in organisations such as the National Womens Trade Union League. Her endowment of a major literary award the Miles Franklin Award has consolidated her legacy in Australian literary life.

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