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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), [1] known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901.
6 days ago · Miles Franklin (born Oct. 14, 1879, Talbingo, N.S.W., Australia—died Sept. 19, 1954, Sydney) was an Australian author of historical fiction who wrote from feminist and nationalist perspectives.
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Franklin was descended from Australian pioneers. She was born on her grandmother’s land near Talbingo Station and grew up on a small cattle farm owned by her father near Tumut. Later, the family moved to to Goulburn to farm dairy cattle. Originally, Franklin wished to study music, but that proved impractical, so she turned to writing. Some of the e...
Franklin set off in 1906 to make her way through life in America. Settling in Chicago, she’d all but given up on the idea of becoming a writer, and began doing secretarial work for the National Women’s Trade Union League of America. Though at the time she fervently rejected labeling herself as a feminist, her work with the trade union brought her i...
In the 1920s, Franklin traveled back and forth from Britain to Australia, always by way of the U.S. During this period, she wrote a set of historical novels set in the Australian bush and published them under the odd pseudonym “Brent of Bin Bin.” She worried that nothing she did would ever live up to the success of her freshman effort, My Brilliant...
Franklin returned to live permanently Australia in 1932, and began writing under her own name once again.All That Swagger, considered her best-known work second only to My Brilliant Career,was published in 1936. Once she had settled back into her home country, Franklin became deeply involved in the Australian literary community. Residing in Carlton...
Miles Franklin died in September, 1954 in New South Wales, Australia, of a coronary occlusion at the age of 75. In her obituary in the Melbourne Age, she was described as follows: “In her lifetime, petite, slim Miles Franklin of the ready smile and quick, bright eyes always carefully parried inquiries. She is quoted as having remarked to a friend o...
On this site 1. Quotes by Miles Franklin 2. “Brent of Bin Bin,” My Career Goes Bung, and More Major works Some of these works were published under Miles Franklin; others under “Brent of Bin Bin” 1. My Brilliant Career(1901) 2. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn(1909) 3. Up the Country: A Tale of Early Australian Squattocracy (1928) 4. Old Blastus of Bandi...
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in 1879 in rural New South Wales. My Brilliant Career, her first novel, was published to much excitement and acclaim. She moved to Sydney where she became involved in feminist and literary circles and then onto the United States of America in 1907.
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For all her dynamism and complexity, for all the years spent living in Chicago, Macedonia, London and Sydney, Franklin—nationalist, feminist and novelist—never forgot her beloved country, returning to it again and again in her writing.
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Miles Franklin now had two careers, both pursued full-pelt. Her ever-worrying health collapsed in 1912, shortly after her first visit in 1911 to England and France. Then in her early thirties, she redoubled her literary and political efforts.
From its inception in 1957 the Miles Franklin has grown to be Australia’s most important literary award. In 2013 women writers and publishers instituted another annual award named after Franklin, the Stella Prize for writing by Australian women in all genres. Fiction.
