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Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore wish for happiness, homes, and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever. 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it struck its author's native country like a small bomb and so scandalized Australians that Franklin demanded that it not be published again until ten years after her death.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. Introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert
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The 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 about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death.Title: My Brilliant Career
ISBN Number: 0143105051
ISBN-13: 9780143105053
Location Published: USA, Penguin: 2011
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: New
Size: 19.7 x 13.0 x 1.4 cm
Kg: 0.24 Kg
Type: Book
Categories: AF Classics, YA Contemporary
Seller ID: 9780143105053
Keywords: 0143105051, 9780143105053, miles franklin, my brilliant career
