My Brilliant Career
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A delightfully irresistible classic coming-of-age story, made available in a beautiful hardback for adult and young adult readers The idea of marriage even with the best man in the world seems to me a lowering thing. Trapped on her parents' farm in the Australian outback, ebullient 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. She longs for a more refined, aesthetic lifestyle—to read, to think, to sing—but most of all she longs to do great things. Suddenly her life is transformed. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she finds herself under the gaze of wealthy, handsome Harry Beecham. And soon she must choose between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a "brilliant career." First published in 1901, this book features an unforgettable, feisty heroine, who is refreshingly modern.
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Miles Franklin (1879–1954) was born into a pioneering family settled in New South Wales, Australia. She wrote My Brilliant Career when she was only 16. Publication in 1901 brought instant fame and a notoriety that was so unwelcome that she forbade its republication until 10 years after her death. Miles Franklin traveled to America, where she worked for the Women's Trade Union League, and later during WWI to London and Salonika, where she did war work. In 1933 she returned to Australia, where she spent the rest of her life. My Career Goes Bung, the sequel to My Brilliant Career, was published in 1946, and her autobiography, Childhood at Brindabella, posthumously in 1963.
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"A splendidly vivid display . . . carrying the reader by force of its narrative and its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice." —Times
