Miles Franklin (1879 – 1954) was an Australian writer best known for her 1901 novel, My Brilliant Career. Following is a selection of quotes by Miles Franklin that will help us get to know this under-appreciated author a bit better.

Franklin is also an unsung early feminist. She traveled to the United States when she became a participant of the women’s movement and joined the National Women’s Trade Union League of America.

When she began her writing career in earnest, she, like George Eliot and other female authors, she dropped her first names (Stella Maria Sarah) and retained the last part of it — Miles Franklin — thinking it would help achieve a more serious literary reputation. She employed a number of other noms de plume throughout her writing career, because, ruth be told, it was a way to ease the sting of critical reviews. Read More→