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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Despair of the Household
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In this introduction to the Text Classics re-issue of My Brilliant Career, Jennifer Byrne writes about Sybylla Melvyn's fury and wonders if Miles Franklin had the sense that she was living in the wrong time. Byrne also discusses the history of the book's reception and the changes wrought by feminism.

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    y separately published work icon The Saturday Age 14 April 2012 Z1854862 2012 newspaper issue 2012 pg. 20-21 Section: Life & Style
    Note: col. illus., port. Miles Franklin)
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