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The article draws attention to the 'hidden presence of women writers' in nineteenth-century Australian literature, writers whose contributions had largely been overlooked previously.
The article examines literary connections between Franklin's protagonist Sybylla in My Career Goes Bung and her literary predecessors in novels by Thackeray, George Moore, and George Gissing, and discovers a 'deliberate self-conscious feminist literary appropriation' of the source characters and motifs.