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)
Room of One's Own, Woolfe
The Color Purple, Walker
This unit focuses on the study of women's writing from a broad social and cultural context. While the women writers will change from offering to offering, the content will remain centred on feminist theory and discourses of race, ethnicity, class and gender. The unit will draw on a variety of genres including drama, fiction, poetry, essay and short story. Students will explore women's concerns about motherhood, marriage, violence and domesticity; cultural identity, vocation and the body as (sexual) object. They will also explore women's experiences of madness and victimisation; segregation and alienation; power/lessness and the public sphere.
