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My Career Goes Bung. Sybylla Melvyn is well known to the tens of thousands who have read her first "autobiography", My Brilliant Career. In this, the sequel, however, the real Sybylla emerges--a little older now and facing the sudden change from bush obscurity to overnight fame.
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Sybylla, strong-headed and capable, lived her sixteen years of life in the Australian outback, in poverty. She fondly remembers her younger years, including her parents' concern about her not being very feminine.
In this ironically titled and riotous first novel by Miles Franklin, originally published in 1901, Sybylla tells the story of growing up passionate and rebellious in rural NSW, where the most that girls could hope for was to marry or to teach.
Miles Franklin, My Career Goes Bung (review) by wadholloway | Apr 13, 2022 | Reviews | 12 comments. by Bill Holloway. Making the case that My Career Goes Bung, far from being a ‘sequel’, is the ‘frame’ through which Franklin wishes us to re-view her adolescent masterpiece My Brilliant Career.
Aug 18, 2021 · In My Career Goes Bung the first novel having earned much notoriety for its young author, Sybylla has to deal with the reactions of people within her limited community, and then later from the cultural set in Sydney. Both novels are based on what happened to Miles Franklin.
Franklin’s feminism and her outright rejection of traditional women’s roles made her books controversial in Australia. In fact, the book My Career Goes Bung, the sequel to her first novel, was judged so audacious that it was not published until 1946.
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