My Brilliant Career
$32.40
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2025
Summary
My Brilliant Career: A Rebel’s Tale in the Australian Outback
Miles Franklin’s beloved Australian classic, now in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition!
Follow 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’ …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241699584 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241699584 |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
| Author: | Miles Franklin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 385g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 136mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
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 women’s advocate in organisations such as the National Women’s 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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