My brilliant career / Miles Franklin ; [introduced by Jennifer Byrne].
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TextSeries: Text classicsPublication details: Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2012Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 392 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9781921922190 (pbk.)Subject(s): Young women -- Australia -- Fiction | Country life -- Australia -- 19th century -- Fiction | Australia -- FictionDDC classification: A823.2 Summary: CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). AUSTRALIAN. When sixteen-year-old Miles Franklin began writing a thinly disguised novel about her youth in the Australian bush, she meant to 'show just how ridiculous the life around me would be as story material.' But when My Brilliant Career was published in 1901, it struck its author's native country like a small bomb and so scandalized Australians that Franklin demanded that it not be published again until ten years after her death. Today it remains electrifying for its passion, candor, and contrariness.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111049581935 |
First published 1901.
CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). AUSTRALIAN. When sixteen-year-old Miles Franklin began writing a thinly disguised novel about her youth in the Australian bush, she meant to 'show just how ridiculous the life around me would be as story material.' But when My Brilliant Career was published in 1901, it struck its author's native country like a small bomb and so scandalized Australians that Franklin demanded that it not be published again until ten years after her death. Today it remains electrifying for its passion, candor, and contrariness.
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