(Stella) (Maria Sarah) Miles (Lampe) Franklin | Biography

Miles Franklin is best known in Australian literary history and among Australian readers for her first novel, My Brilliant Career (1901), written rapidly, she claimed, when she was only sixteen but not published until she was twenty-two. That publication created an admiring stir in the then small Australian literary community and alternately amused and shocked many members of her family, who recognized themselves and events as well as locations of their family history thinly disguised in the fiction. In the last few decades a revival of interest in Franklin's work and life has been initiated largely by feminist revisions of Australian literary traditions that repositioned My Brilliant Career as a key text in those traditions. This revival has included critical writing on Franklin's work, republication of some of her fiction, and publication of previously unpublished works. A ...
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