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My Brilliant Career,
single work
novel
'My Brilliant Career was written by Stella Franklin (1879-1954) when she was just nineteen years old. The novel struggled to find an Australian publisher, but was published in London and Edinburgh in 1901 after receiving an endorsement from Henry Lawson. Although Franklin wrote under the pseudonym 'Miles Franklin', Lawson’s preface makes it clear that Franklin is, as Lawson puts it 'a girl.'
'The novel relates the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a strong-willed young woman of the 1890s growing up in the Goulburn area of New South Wales and longing to be a writer.' (Publication summary)
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My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn,
single work
novel
'In this sequel to Miles Franklin's famous novel My Brilliant Career, once again we encounter the enchanting Sybylla Melvyn. She's a little older now, catapulted from bush obscurity into sudden fame with the publication of her autobiography. Sybylla goes to fashionable Sydney to further her career in the literary world, but her patrons, her critics and her innumerable suitors meet more than they bargained for in the wilful Sybylla.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (House of Books ed.).
- Introduction, single work criticism (p. v-xviii)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Brindabella Child Goes On to a Brilliant Career
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 25 March 2007; (p. 21) -
Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 3 2004; (p. 64)
— Review of My Brilliant Career [and] My Career Goes Bung 1990 selected work novel -
Classic Collection Reclaims Our Neglected Riches
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 20-21 October 1990; (p. 5)
— Review of Waterway 1938 single work novel ; My Brilliant Career [and] My Career Goes Bung 1990 selected work novel ; Intimate Strangers 1937 single work novel ; Alien Son 1952 selected work short story autobiography
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Untitled
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 18 no. 3 2004; (p. 64)
— Review of My Brilliant Career [and] My Career Goes Bung 1990 selected work novel -
Classic Collection Reclaims Our Neglected Riches
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 20-21 October 1990; (p. 5)
— Review of Waterway 1938 single work novel ; My Brilliant Career [and] My Career Goes Bung 1990 selected work novel ; Intimate Strangers 1937 single work novel ; Alien Son 1952 selected work short story autobiography -
Brindabella Child Goes On to a Brilliant Career
2007
single work
column
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 25 March 2007; (p. 21)