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Issue Details: First known date: 1946... 1946 My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn
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'In this sequel to Miles Franklin's famous novel My Brilliant Career, once again we encounter the enchanting Sybylla Melvyn. She's a little older now, catapulted from bush obscurity into sudden fame with the publication of her autobiography. Sybylla goes to fashionable Sydney to further her career in the literary world, but her patrons, her critics and her innumerable suitors meet more than they bargained for in the wilful Sybylla.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (House of Books ed.).

Exhibitions

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Notes

  • Sequel to My Brilliant Career.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Georgian House , 1946 .
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      Extent: 234p.
    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson ,
      1980 .
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      Extent: 234p.
      Edition info: Arkon paperbacks
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Verna Coleman.
      ISBN: 0207142203
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      St. Martin's Press ,
      1981 .
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      Alternative title: The End of My Career
      Extent: 234p.
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Verna Coleman.
      ISBN: 0312250754
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Virago ,
      1981 .
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      Extent: 234p.
      ISBN: 086068220X (pbk)
    • London,
      c
      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Angus and Robertson ,
      1983 .
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      Extent: 234p.
      ISBN: 0207146845
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon My Brilliant Career [and] My Career Goes Bung Miles Franklin , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z407359 1990 selected work novel (taught in 7 units) North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 pg. 259-449
    • North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1990 .
      Extent: xviii, 450p.p.
      Reprinted: 1994
      ISBN: 0207186952 (pbk), 0207166420 (pbk)
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: The House of Books , 2013 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781742699455, 1742699456

Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.

Works about this Work

To Kill a Mockingbird, My Brilliant Career and Long-Lost ‘Sequels’ Michelle Smith , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 9 February 2015;
On Love, War and Literary Life : The Newcastle Morning Herald Serialises The Thorny Rose Jill Roe , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 113-118)
Mentioning the War Cassandra Atherton , 2012 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Winter no. 36 2012; (p. 183-192)
'Oh, For Some Refuge - For Myself - To Be Myself' : The Search for Gender Neutrality in the Diaries of Miles Franklin Sandra Knowles , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , March vol. 25 no. 63 2010; (p. 63-75)

'Miles Franklin, as many scholars have suggested, was an inherently contradictory personality. Friends and colleagues have represented her as someone who rarely disclosed her private life. Marjory Barnard highlighted Franklin's privacy when she wrote in her biography of Franklin: 'Who knows exactly what Miles felt - even when she told you?' (1967, 49). In her collection of Australian women writers' diaries and letters from this era, Carole Ferrier writes: 'Franklin does not generally reveal a great deal about her personal life in her letters' (1992, 6). Jill Roe describes her as 'self-protective to a degree people still find incomprehensible' (2008, 345). This article has been developed from a larger project that set out to explore 'the dynamics of her interior life' (Roe 2004, 44) as expressed in Franklin'd manuscript diaries, held at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.' (p63)

'Only Scratch the Surface' : Reading Franklin's Cockatoos Leigh Dale , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 1-2 2007; (p. 377-390)
Book Chronicle Q , 1947 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 6 no. 2 1947; (p. 132-136)

— Review of Zwishn Himl un Waser Herz Bergner , 1946 single work novel ; An Australian Muster 1946 anthology short story prose extract ; Cookabundy Bridge and Other Stories Brian James , 1946 selected work short story ; Leviathan's Inch Brian Elliott , 1946 single work novel ; Now that We're Laughing Margaret Trist , 1945 single work novel ; Men Against the Earth John K. Ewers , 1946 single work novel ; My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin , 1946 single work novel ; Tell Us About the Turkey, Jo : Short Stories Alan Marshall , 1946 selected work short story ; Twenty Great Australian Stories 1946 anthology short story ; The Courtship of Uncle Henry : A Collection of Tales and Stories Dal Stivens , 1946 selected work short story ; The Twig Is Bent Capel Boake , 1946 single work novel ; Lost Haven Kylie Tennant , 1946 single work novel ; Dusty : The Story of a Sheep Dog Frank Dalby Davison , 1946 single work children's fiction
Untitled C. Moorehead , 1981 single work review
— Appears in: The Spectator , 20 June 1981; (p. 24-25)

— Review of My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin , 1901 single work novel ; My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin , 1946 single work novel
Comet, Not Meteorite R. G. Howarth , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 7 no. 3 1946; (p. 176-178)

— Review of My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin , 1946 single work novel
Untitled 1946 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Books , vol. 1 no. 2 1946; (p. 13)

— Review of My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin , 1946 single work novel
New Novels J. M. , 1946 single work review
— Appears in: The Australasian Book News and Library Journal , November vol. 1 no. 5 1946; (p. 207)

— Review of My Career Goes Bung : Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn Miles Franklin , 1946 single work novel
Miles Franklin: The Outside Track Anna Rutherford , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words : Essays in Honour of Irene Simon 1988; (p. 239-256) Breaking Circles 1991; (p. 118-143)
Miles Franklin's Feminist Refunctioning of Sources in My Career Goes Bung S. John Sircar , 1994-1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 6 no. 1 1994-1995; (p. 80-104)
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.
Introduction Elizabeth Webby , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: My Brilliant Career [and] My Career Goes Bung 2004; (p. v-xviii)
The Irresistible Desire for Self Assertion in Miles Franklin and Arundhati Roy Meenakshi Raman , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Caring Cultures : Sharing Imaginations : Australia and India 2006; (p. 59-70)
Raman compares the work of Miles Franklin to that of Arundhati Roy, in terms of the authors' urge for self-assertion.
'Only Scratch the Surface' : Reading Franklin's Cockatoos Leigh Dale , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 67 no. 1-2 2007; (p. 377-390)
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