Like Sybylla Melvyn (the protagonist of My Brilliant Career), Franklin prioritized her career over romance, and she never married. Title: My Brilliant Career Author: Miles Franklin Publisher: Alpha Editions ISBN: 9789352970728 Length: 0.58 inch Width: 5.5 inch Languages: English. She wrote more novels about the Australian bush under the pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin, and she was actively involved in Australia’s literary world.
In her time away from home, her patriotism and love of Australia grew, and she returned to Australia in 1932.
In 1915, she moved to England, where she continued to write. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read My Brilliant Career. Miles Franklin was a teenager when she wrote My Brilliant Career and Sybylla has the unflinching mind of a teenager. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore on a brilliant career. For the next several years, Franklin worked as a secretary and assisted in philanthropic efforts. My Brilliant Career - Ebook written by Miles Franklin. As a young woman, she worked as a nurse and a housemaid until moving to the United States in 1906. Her family could not afford an extensive education, but Franklin nevertheless took an interest in literature and writing, and she published My Brilliant Career when she was only 22.
Her family moved around during her childhood and early adulthood, losing more and more money until they finally settled in a suburb of Sydney in 1915. Sybylla has poor self-esteem and an ornery contrariness. Like the protagonist of her novel My Brilliant Career, Miles Franklin was the daughter of an Australian landowner and a descendant of aristocrats. A self-defined Plain Jane always on the edge of poverty takes us to the late 19th century Australian desert farm hard life.
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