My Brilliant Career
Edinburgh
London
:
William Blackwood
,
1901
Z161522
1901
single work
novel
(taught in 56 units)
'My Brilliant Career was written by Stella Franklin (1879-1954) when she was just nineteen years old. The novel struggled to find an Australian publisher, but was published in London and Edinburgh in 1901 after receiving an endorsement from Henry Lawson. Although Franklin wrote under the pseudonym 'Miles Franklin', Lawson’s preface makes it clear that Franklin is, as Lawson puts it 'a girl.'
'The novel relates the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a strong-willed young woman of the 1890s growing up in the Goulburn area of New South Wales and longing to be a writer.' (Publication summary)
Embark on a fascinating study of Australian writing from the late 19th and early 20th century. In this unit you read a selection of poetry, a novel and a selection of short stories. Throughout the unit you investigate and reflect on the themes of nationality and gender in Australian literature and history. Texts include an anthology and a unit dossier of relevant literary, historical and critical writings. This unit examines the inter-relations between literary writing and reading, cultural institutions and political movements and ideologies in the late 19th century.
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