My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
The gripping story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the sixteen-year-old author at the time.Miles Franklin's 1901 debut novel remains an insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration -- Anita Sethi * Guardian *
It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius * New York Times *
My Brilliant Career blends the intimacy of life writing with the broader scope of a story being retold * Conversation *
Unashamedly high-spirited and romantic * COMPANY *
A splendidly vivid display ... carrying the reader by force of its narrative and its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice * THE TIMES *
Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was born into a pioneering family settled in New South Wales, Australia. She wrote My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen. Publication in 1901 brought instant fame and a notoriety that was so unwelcome that she forbade its republication until ten years after her death.
Franklin then went to America, where she worked for the Women's Trade Union League, and later London and Salonika, where she did war work as a political secretary for the National Housing Council.
In 1933 she returned to Australia, where she spent the rest of her life. My Career Goes Bung, the sequel to My Brilliant Career, was published in 1946, and her autobiography, Childhood at Brindabella, posthumously in 1963.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780860681939 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860681939 |
| Title | My Brilliant Career |
| Author | Miles Franklin |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1980-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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