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My Brilliant Career

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First published: 1901
Pages: 235

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Preface and Introduction
5:19
I Remember, I Remember
7:51
An Introduction to Possum Gully
6:55
A Lifeless Life
10:02
A Career which soon Careered to an End
9:41
Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles
15:52
Revolt
14:58
Was e’er A Rose without its Thorn?
19:50
Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!
19:04
Aunt Helen’s Recipe
14:44
Everard Grey
17:04
Yah!
17:41
One Grand Passion
13:13
He
19:20
Principally Letters
13:50
When the Heart is Young
13:07
When Fortune Smiles
20:24
Idylls of Youth
27:36
As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear
6:53
The 9th of November 1896
20:21
Same Yarn (Cont.)
22:23
My Unladylike Behaviour Again
12:35
Sweet Seventeen
17:40
Ah, for one Hour of Burning Love, ’tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!
16:13
Thou Knowest not What a Day May Bring Forth
8:49
Because?
9:40
Boast not Thyself of Tomorrow
20:11
My Journey
7:58
To Life
15:45
To Life (Cont.)
25:56
Where Ignorance is Bliss, ’tis Folly to be Wise
13:48
Mr M’Swat and I have a Bust-up
14:59
Ta-ta to Barney’s Gap
6:17
Back at Possum Gully
10:17
But Absent Friends are Soon Forgot
14:55
The 3rd. of December 1898
11:02
Once Upon a Time, when the Days were Long and Hot
17:39
He that Despises Little Things shall Fall Little by Little
8:09
A Tale that is Told, and a Day that is Done
5:24

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Written when Miles Franklin was still a teenager and published in 1901, this fierce, funny novel gave Australian literature one of its first great heroines. Sybylla Melvyn is poor, plain by her own account, and bursting with ambition on a drought-stricken bush property in 1890s New South Wales. When the wealthy and good-natured Harold Beecham offers marriage and comfort, she balks, unwilling to trade her dreams of writing and independence for any man's household. Part comedy, part protest, the book reads as a young woman's argument with the only future her world was prepared to imagine for her. Franklin drew heavily on her own upbringing. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

About the author

Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was an Australian writer and feminist, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin in New South Wales. My Brilliant Career, written in her teens, made her name. She later worked for reform causes abroad and endowed the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's leading literary prize.