Miles Franklin (1879 – 1954) was an Australian writer best known for her 1901 novel, My Brilliant Career. The following selection of quotes from My Brilliant Career  help us to know the author better, for it has elements of autobiography.

Franklin may not be as well remembered by readers worldwide as she is in her native land, but her works are well worth exploring. 

This description is from the St. Martin’s Press edition of My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin:

“Originally published in 1901, My Brilliant Career was written when Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was only sixteen years old. But Miles Franklin was decades ahead of her time, and this book was written for an audience not yet born.

For the character of Sybilla Melvyn, Miles Franklin created someone who voices with incredible charm but deadly accuracy the fears, conflicts, and torments of every young woman coming of age in a man’s world. Red-haired, impetuous, sharp-tongued, Sybilla has ambitions that reach far beyond here small-town life in the Australian outback.”

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