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My Brilliant Career and 1890s GoulburnJill Roe,
2002single work criticism — Appears in:
Australian Literary Studies,Octobervol.
20no.
42002;(p. 359-369)'Evidence from the novel, the Franklin Papers at the Mitchell Library, and the wonderfully informative Goulburn Evening Post indicates that while Franklin always insisted "the novel is not my life", both she and it owed a good deal to 1890s Goulburn', particularly her teacher Miss Mae Gillespie and journalist Thomas J. Hebblewhite (Jill Roe, Macquarie University News, September 2001, p.6)
My Brilliant Career and 1890s GoulburnJill Roe,
2002single work criticism — Appears in:
Australian Literary Studies,Octobervol.
20no.
42002;(p. 359-369)'Evidence from the novel, the Franklin Papers at the Mitchell Library, and the wonderfully informative Goulburn Evening Post indicates that while Franklin always insisted "the novel is not my life", both she and it owed a good deal to 1890s Goulburn', particularly her teacher Miss Mae Gillespie and journalist Thomas J. Hebblewhite (Jill Roe, Macquarie University News, September 2001, p.6)
'The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely ill meant renewed purpose in life. For Dr Knowles, brilliant physician and town drunk, it meant the revival of a romantic dream. For some it meant a murder plan gone awry, and for Bonaparte, it meant one of the toughest cases of his career. ' (Publication summary)