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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

First published: 1909
Pages: 278

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Read by Kirsty Leishman, Beth Thomas (1974-2020) and Bryan · 9 h 16 min · 31 parts

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Dedication and Glossary
4:13
Clay's
12:22
At Clay's
32:36
Becoming acquainted with Grandma Clay
28:38
Dawn's ambition
9:35
Miss Flipp's uncle
9:24
Grandma Clay's love story
24:21
The little town of Noonoon
21:54
Grandma turns nurse
9:12
The knight has a stolen view of the lady
12:49
Provincial politics and semi-suburban dentists
14:55
Andrew disgraces his rarin'
10:26
Some sideplay
20:44
Various events
33:55
The passing of the trains
34:48
Alas! Miss Flip!
8:33
Advance Australia!
27:56
Mrs Bray and Carry come to issues
17:04
The foundation of the poultry industry
33:02
An opportunely inopportune douche
28:34
Alas! How easily things go wrong!
29:42
Things go more wrong
13:52
O Spirit, and the nine angels who watch us...
9:38
Universal adult sufferage
28:28
Little odds and ends of life
14:18
Love's young dream
9:01
Off with the old
7:48
One might think better of marriage if one's married friends...
10:47
Let there be love
16:56
The savage sells or exchanges his daughter, but in...
10:16
For further particulars consult 'The Noonoon Advertiser' of that date.
10:30

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About this book

Set in the fictional New South Wales town of Noonoon soon after Australian women won the vote, this 1909 novel follows daily life in and around a riverside boarding house run on strict temperance lines by the shrewd, plain-spoken Grandma Clay. Her granddaughter Dawn, bright and headstrong, comes of age as a local election pits a self-styled "women's" candidate against a "men's" candidate, and as a courtship with the young athlete Ernest Breslow forces her to weigh what she wants from marriage. Franklin treats the new female franchise as ordinary civic business rather than spectacle, insisting that women are citizens in their own right. Wry, closely observed, and firmly Australian in voice, it reads at once as a small-town comedy of manners and an early feminist novel.

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.