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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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Stella vs Miles : Women Writers and Literary Value in Australia
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Subjects:
- Grand Days 1993 single work novel
- My Brilliant Career 1901 single work novel
- Unspoken Thoughts 1887 selected work poetry
- Laughter, Not for a Cage : Notes on Australian Writing, with Biographical Emphasis on the Struggles, Functions and Achievements of the Novel in Three-Half Centuries 1956 selected work criticism essay
- Truth 2009 single work novel
- The Slap 2008 single work novel
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