Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Stella vs Miles : Women Writers and Literary Value in Australia
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'Stella Miles Franklin did not want readers of her novel My Brilliant Career to assume that its author was a woman. She wrote to its publishers, asking for the 'Miss' to be removed: she intended readers to believe it to be written by 'a bald-headed seer of the sterner sex'. When Henry Lawson first read it he was flummoxed by the gender of the author. He wrote to Franklin, asking her: 'Will you write and tell me what your really are? Man or woman?' This confusion is nowhere apparent in the preface he wrote for the novel's publication in 1901...' (Introduction, p 32)

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Meanjin 3 vol. 70 no. 3 Spring 2011 Z1801990 2011 periodical issue 2011 pg. 32-39
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