Franklin was born at Talbingo, New South Wales, and grew up in the Brindabella Valley on a property called Brindabella Station. She was the eldest child of Australian-born parents, John Maurice Franklin and Susannah Margaret Eleanor Franklin, née Lampe,who was the great-granddaughter of Edward Miles (or Moyle) who had arrived with the First Fleet in the Scarborough with a seven years sentence for theft.Her family was a member of the squattocracy. She was educated at home until 1889 when she attended Thornford Public During this period she was encouraged in her writing by her teacher, Mary Gillespie (1856–1938) and Tom Hebblewhite (1857–1923) editor of the local Goulburn newspaper.[6] Her best known novel, My Brilliant Career, tells the story of an irrepressible teenage girl, Sybylla Melvyn, growing to womanhood in rural New South Wales. It was published in 1901 with the support of Australian writer, Henry Lawson. After its publication, Franklin tried a career in nursing, and then as a housemaid in Sydney and Melbourne. Whilst doing this she contributed pieces to The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald under the pseudonyms "An Old Bachelor" and "Vernacular." During this period she wrote My Career Goes Bung in which Sybylla encounters the Sydney literary set, but it was not released to the public until 1946.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Franklin, Miles

Literary

Penguin??Books

The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death.

My Brilliant Career (Penguin Classics)

Teen & Young Adult

Penguin Classics

Set in the highlands of New South Wales, this is the story of the Delacy family. Fanny marries Johanna in the 1830s and from there follow generations of indomitable Delacys heading towards the new century and the tragedy that would be World War I.

All that swagger (A & R classics)

Genre Fiction

Angus&Robertson

My Brilliant Career

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

My Career Goes Bung

Childhood at Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Contemporary

Recounts the experiences of the Mazeres, Pooles, and Brennans, three Australian pioneer families, in the 1840s and 1850s

Up the country: A saga of pioneering days

Angus & Robertson Publishers

Set in the highlands of New South Wales, this is the story of the Delacy family. Fanny marries Johanna in the 1830s and from there follow generations of indomitable Delacys heading towards the new century and the tragedy that would be World War I.

All That Swagger (Sirius Quality Paperback Series)

Up the Country: A Saga of Pioneering Days (Eden Paperbacks)

ETT Imprint (Editions Tom Thompson)

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