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My Brilliant Career

A new edition of the Australian feminist classic

by Miles Franklin, Harriet Selwood ...

Some women accept the life they are given. Sybylla Melvyn refuses.Raised on remote cattle stations before poverty forces her family onto a struggling farm, Sybylla grows up sharp tongued, clever, and utterly unwilling to be quiet. She longs for music, ideas, travel, and purpose, things the narrow world around her insists a girl like her should not want. When a wealthy, steady, devoted man offers ... Read more

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Some women accept the life they are given. Sybylla Melvyn refuses.Raised on remote cattle stations before poverty forces her family onto a struggling farm, Sybylla grows up sharp tongued, clever, and utterly unwilling to be quiet. She longs for music, ideas, travel, and purpose, things the narrow world around her insists a girl like her should not want. When a wealthy, steady, devoted man offers
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My Brilliant Career

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My Brilliant Career, by Miles Franklin, is a landmark of Australian literature and one of the most compelling early novels about a young woman determined to shape her own destiny. At the heart of the story is Sybylla Melvyn, an intelligent, passionate, and fiercely imaginative young woman growing up in the harsh realities of rural Australia. Her family struggles financially, while Sybylla dreams ... Read more

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My Brilliant Career, by Miles Franklin, is a landmark of Australian literature and one of the most compelling early novels about a young woman determined to shape her own destiny. At the heart of the story is Sybylla Melvyn, an intelligent, passionate, and fiercely imaginative young woman growing up in the harsh realities of rural Australia. Her family struggles financially, while Sybylla dreams
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My Brilliant Career

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My Brilliant Career is a spirited and unforgettable coming-of-age novel that follows a young woman determined to shape her own future in a society that expects her to conform to traditional roles. Intelligent, ambitious, and fiercely independent, the protagonist struggles to reconcile her dreams and aspirations with the expectations placed upon her by family and society. Set against the backdrop ... Read more

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My Brilliant Career is a spirited and unforgettable coming-of-age novel that follows a young woman determined to shape her own future in a society that expects her to conform to traditional roles. Intelligent, ambitious, and fiercely independent, the protagonist struggles to reconcile her dreams and aspirations with the expectations placed upon her by family and society. Set against the backdrop
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The Classic Collection of Miles Franklin — Illustrated Edition

My Brilliant Career; My Career Goes Bung; Up the Country; Ten Creeks Run; and Other Works

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The Classic Collection of Miles Franklin — Illustrated Edition brings together some of the most distinctive works of one of Australia’s most original and influential literary voices. Best known for her spirited portrayals of independent women and the realities of life in rural Australia, Miles Franklin combined sharp observation, humor, social criticism, and a profound sense of place. At the heart ... Read more

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The Classic Collection of Miles Franklin — Illustrated Edition brings together some of the most distinctive works of one of Australia’s most original and influential literary voices. Best known for her spirited portrayals of independent women and the realities of life in rural Australia, Miles Franklin combined sharp observation, humor, social criticism, and a profound sense of place. At the heart
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My Brilliant Career

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The novel tells the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong and independent young woman growing up in rural Australia during the late 19th century. Sybylla is passionate about literature and dreams of becoming a writer. However, she faces numerous obstacles and societal expectations that challenge her aspirations.Set in the Australian bush, the novel explores themes of gender roles, class ... Read more

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The novel tells the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong and independent young woman growing up in rural Australia during the late 19th century. Sybylla is passionate about literature and dreams of becoming a writer. However, she faces numerous obstacles and societal expectations that challenge her aspirations.Set in the Australian bush, the novel explores themes of gender roles, class
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My Brilliant Career

A Novel

by Miles Franklin, Henry Lawson ...

Miles Franklin’s fierce and funny My Brilliant Career is the passionate semi-autobiographical novel of a young woman living in the Australian bush who wants more than the life she’s been given.Sybylla Penelope Melvyn had no intention of accepting the hand she’d been dealt. Living deep in the Australian bush, her family is plunged further into poverty when drought and her father’s bad decisions ... Read more

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Miles Franklin’s fierce and funny My Brilliant Career is the passionate semi-autobiographical novel of a young woman living in the Australian bush who wants more than the life she’s been given.Sybylla Penelope Melvyn had no intention of accepting the hand she’d been dealt. Living deep in the Australian bush, her family is plunged further into poverty when drought and her father’s bad decisions
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My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin ...

**THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIESThe fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic**Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel ... Read more

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**THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIESThe fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic**Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel
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All That Swagger

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All That Swagger has been acclaimed by pundits as one of the best Australian books yet composed. The story develops from the center outwards from one who feels the enchantment of Australia. The characters are established in the dirt, the woodland, as the early pioneers were. One subject anxieties character - that backbone of direction, hardihood boldness, honesty, which should perpetually be the ... Read more

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All That Swagger has been acclaimed by pundits as one of the best Australian books yet composed. The story develops from the center outwards from one who feels the enchantment of Australia. The characters are established in the dirt, the woodland, as the early pioneers were. One subject anxieties character - that backbone of direction, hardihood boldness, honesty, which should perpetually be the
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My Brilliant Career/My Career Goes Bung

by Miles Franklin ...

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Passionate, headstrong and imaginative, Sybylla Melvyn is one of the most endearing heroines of Australian literature.'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' 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. In this ... Read more

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Passionate, headstrong and imaginative, Sybylla Melvyn is one of the most endearing heroines of Australian literature.'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear.' 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. In this
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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

by Miles Franklin ...

In "Some Everyday Folk and Dawn," readers are likely to encounter a story that revolves around the lives of ordinary people in rural Australia. The novel explores themes such as family dynamics, community relationships, and the struggles and triumphs of everyday life.Miles Franklin's writing often reflects her deep connection to the Australian landscape and her keen observations of Australian ... Read more

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In "Some Everyday Folk and Dawn," readers are likely to encounter a story that revolves around the lives of ordinary people in rural Australia. The novel explores themes such as family dynamics, community relationships, and the struggles and triumphs of everyday life.Miles Franklin's writing often reflects her deep connection to the Australian landscape and her keen observations of Australian
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My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin ...

Sybylla Melvyn wants more than the life laid out for her on a struggling Australian farm. Fierce, funny, and stubbornly herself, she dreams of music, of writing, of a world beyond the dust and drudgery of the bush-and refuses to trade her ambitions for a comfortable marriage, however tempting the offer.Written when its author was barely out of her teens, My Brilliant Career startled readers in ... Read more

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Sybylla Melvyn wants more than the life laid out for her on a struggling Australian farm. Fierce, funny, and stubbornly herself, she dreams of music, of writing, of a world beyond the dust and drudgery of the bush-and refuses to trade her ambitions for a comfortable marriage, however tempting the offer.Written when its author was barely out of her teens, My Brilliant Career startled readers in
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Childhood at Brindabella

My First Ten Years

by Miles Franklin ...

For a long time I have been intending to write down earliest memories to discover how many I retain clear-cut before my memory is too moth-eaten. I meant to do this as a diary for myself alone, as sailors in the doldrums erect full-rigged ships in bottles just because the mind is an instrument that sanity cannot leave idle. I must find some kind of exercise for a mind unused except on chores or ... Read more

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For a long time I have been intending to write down earliest memories to discover how many I retain clear-cut before my memory is too moth-eaten. I meant to do this as a diary for myself alone, as sailors in the doldrums erect full-rigged ships in bottles just because the mind is an instrument that sanity cannot leave idle. I must find some kind of exercise for a mind unused except on chores or
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