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'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.).
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Sequel to My Brilliant Career.
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- Also braille, sound recording.
Works about this Work
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To Kill a Mockingbird, My Brilliant Career and Long-Lost ‘Sequels’
2015
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essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 9 February 2015; -
On Love, War and Literary Life : The Newcastle Morning Herald Serialises The Thorny Rose
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 113-118) -
Mentioning the War
2012
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essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Winter no. 36 2012; (p. 183-192) -
'Oh, For Some Refuge - For Myself - To Be Myself' : The Search for Gender Neutrality in the Diaries of Miles Franklin
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , March vol. 25 no. 63 2010; (p. 63-75)'Miles Franklin, as many scholars have suggested, was an inherently contradictory personality. Friends and colleagues have represented her as someone who rarely disclosed her private life. Marjory Barnard highlighted Franklin's privacy when she wrote in her biography of Franklin: 'Who knows exactly what Miles felt - even when she told you?' (1967, 49). In her collection of Australian women writers' diaries and letters from this era, Carole Ferrier writes: 'Franklin does not generally reveal a great deal about her personal life in her letters' (1992, 6). Jill Roe describes her as 'self-protective to a degree people still find incomprehensible' (2008, 345). This article has been developed from a larger project that set out to explore 'the dynamics of her interior life' (Roe 2004, 44) as expressed in Franklin'd manuscript diaries, held at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.' (p63)
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'Only Scratch the Surface' : Reading Franklin's Cockatoos
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 1-2 2007; (p. 377-390)
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Book Chronicle
1947
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 6 no. 2 1947; (p. 132-136)
— Review of Zwishn Himl un Waser 1946 single work novel ; An Australian Muster 1946 anthology short story prose extract ; Cookabundy Bridge and Other Stories 1946 selected work short story ; Leviathan's Inch 1946 single work novel ; Now that We're Laughing 1945 single work novel ; Men Against the Earth 1946 single work novel ; My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn 1946 single work novel ; Tell Us About the Turkey, Jo : Short Stories 1946 selected work short story ; Twenty Great Australian Stories 1946 anthology short story ; The Courtship of Uncle Henry : A Collection of Tales and Stories 1946 selected work short story ; The Twig Is Bent 1946 single work novel ; Lost Haven 1946 single work novel ; Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog 1946 single work children's fiction -
Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Spectator , 20 June 1981; (p. 24-25)
— Review of My Brilliant Career 1901 single work novel ; My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn 1946 single work novel -
Comet, Not Meteorite
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 7 no. 3 1946; (p. 176-178)
— Review of My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn 1946 single work novel -
Untitled
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Books , vol. 1 no. 2 1946; (p. 13)
— Review of My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn 1946 single work novel -
New Novels
1946
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , November vol. 1 no. 5 1946; (p. 207)
— Review of My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn 1946 single work novel -
Miles Franklin: The Outside Track
1988
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criticism
— Appears in: Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words : Essays in Honour of Irene Simon 1988; (p. 239-256) Breaking Circles 1991; (p. 118-143) -
Miles Franklin's Feminist Refunctioning of Sources in My Career Goes Bung
1994-1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 6 no. 1 1994-1995; (p. 80-104) The article examines literary connections between Franklin's protagonist Sybylla in My Career Goes Bung and her literary predecessors in novels by Thackeray, George Moore, and George Gissing, and discovers a 'deliberate self-conscious feminist literary appropriation' of the source characters and motifs. -
Introduction
2004
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criticism
— Appears in: My Brilliant Career [and] My Career Goes Bung 2004; (p. v-xviii) -
The Irresistible Desire for Self Assertion in Miles Franklin and Arundhati Roy
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Caring Cultures : Sharing Imaginations : Australia and India 2006; (p. 59-70) Raman compares the work of Miles Franklin to that of Arundhati Roy, in terms of the authors' urge for self-assertion. -
'Only Scratch the Surface' : Reading Franklin's Cockatoos
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 1-2 2007; (p. 377-390)