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My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel by Miles Franklin. It is the first of many novels by Franklin, one of the major Australian writers of her time. It was written while she was still a teenager, as a romance to amuse her friends. Franklin submitted the manuscript to Henry Lawson who contributed a preface and took it to his own publishers in Edinburgh. The popularity of the novel in Australia and the perceived closeness of many of the characters to her own family and circumstances as small farmers in New South Wales near Goulburn caused Franklin a great deal of distress and led her to withdrawi.

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  • "My brilliant career and My career goes bung"
  • "My brilliant career"@ja
  • "My brilliant career"

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  • "My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel by Miles Franklin. It is the first of many novels by Franklin, one of the major Australian writers of her time. It was written while she was still a teenager, as a romance to amuse her friends. Franklin submitted the manuscript to Henry Lawson who contributed a preface and took it to his own publishers in Edinburgh. The popularity of the novel in Australia and the perceived closeness of many of the characters to her own family and circumstances as small farmers in New South Wales near Goulburn caused Franklin a great deal of distress and led her to withdrawi."@en
  • "A story of a young girl living in the harsh outback plains of N.S.W. in 1901."@en
  • "A young woman from the Australian Outback must choose between love and independence."
  • ""I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You will draw away as though I were a snake when you hear." With this warning, Sybylla confesses to her rich and handsome suitor that she is given to writing stories and bound, therefore, on a brilliant career. In this ironically titled and exuberant novel by Miles Franklin, originally published in 1901, Sybylla tells the story of growing up passionate and rebellious in rural New South Wales, where the most that girls could hope for was to marry or to teach. Sybylla will do neither, but that doesn't stop her from falling in love, and it doesn't make the choices any easier."
  • "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 New South Wales, where the most the girls could hope for was to marry or to teach. Sybylla will do neither, but that doesn't stop her from falling in love, and it doesn't make the choices any easier."@en
  • "In the 1890s, Sybylla Melvyn lives in the Outback during a time of political and social unrest in Australia."@en
  • "In the 1890's Sybylla Melvyn lives in the outback during a time of political and social unrest in Australia."@en
  • "Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl - passionate, endearing, stubborn, honest - and her fraught journey from rags to riches to rags. Introduction by Jennifer Byrne. Miles Franklin was born in central New South Wales, in 1879. By the age of twenty, Franklin had completed her first novel, My Brilliant Career. After it was rejected by local publishers, she sent it to Henry Lawson, who called it 'the first great Australian novel'. He helped her to get it published in Britain in 1901. Miles Franklin published nineteen novels and provided for the creation of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's premier literary award. Jennifer Byrne has worked as an award-winning journalist in print, television and radio. She now hosts the popular ABC programs First Tuesday Bookclub and Jennifer Byrne Presents. textclassics.com.au 'The book is true to Australia - the truest I ever read.' Henry Lawson."
  • "There's something wild in this ''picture of a young girl hungering for life and love in the harsh outback plains of New South Wales''. Banned by the author herself until ten years after her death in 1954, this vivid Australian classic was originally published in Edinburgh."@en
  • "Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl---passionate, endearing, stubborn, honest---and her fraught journey from rags to riches to rags."
  • "Sybylla comes from a well-do-family. Her education in music and literature has given her "wild dreams" of a career in the arts and a delicate sensibility. When her father's fortunes collapse she is forced to escape squalor and poverty by staying with her wealthy grandmother. It is during her short stay that she is approached by Mr. Right? ..."@en
  • "The story of Sybilla who grew up in a small country town in N.S.W. and wanted to be a writer and have a brilliant career - This was in an age when the best a girl could hope for was to marry well__"
  • "The story of Sybilla who grew up in a small country town in N.S.W. and wanted to be a writer and have a brilliant career - This was in an age when the best a girl could hope for was to marry well__"@en
  • "Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends. It depicts the poor, intelligent Sybylla who cannot accustom herself to her family's reduced circumstances. She is given a reprieve and sent to her Grandmother's grand house, where she mingles with the best rural society, including the handsome Harry Beecham. She is faced with the choice of material improvement through marriage, or personal improvement through working for her dreams."
  • "Written with all the high spirits of youth, My Brilliant Career is the unforgettable tale of Sybylla Melvin, a headstrong country girl - passionate, endearing, stubborn, honest- and her fraught journey from rags to riches to rags."
  • "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."@en
  • "Miles Franklin's 1901 ground-breaking debut, and an instant sensation. Meet Sybylla Melvyn, the young girl hungering for life and love in outback New South Wales."@en
  • "A sixteen-year-old living in the Australian outback in 1895 voices her fears, conflicts, and torments about coming of age in a man's world."

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  • "Talking books"
  • "Translations"
  • "Classic"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Classical fiction"
  • "Mystery"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "History"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Braille books"
  • "Autobiographical fiction"@en
  • "Autobiographical fiction"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"

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  • "Waga seishun no kagayaki"
  • "Waga seishun no kagayaki"@ja
  • "Sibilla = My brilliant career"
  • "My Brilliant Career"
  • "My Brilliant Career"@en
  • "My brilliant career; and, My career goes bung"
  • "My brilliant career. Large print"@en
  • "My Brilliant Career: Text Classics"
  • "My brilliant career / screenplay"
  • "Mi impresionante carrera"
  • "Mi impresionante carrera"@es
  • "My brilliant career : Illustr. with the film costume and set designs. With add. decorations"
  • "My brilliant career & My career goes bung"
  • "My Brilliant Career. : [A novel], etc"@en
  • "My brilliant career; with a preface by Henry Lawson"
  • "My brilliant career, with a pref. by Henry Lawson"
  • "My brilliant Career"
  • "My Brilliant career"
  • "My Brilliant Career PB Miles Franklin"
  • "Ma brillante carrière : roman"
  • "My brilliant career"@en
  • "My brilliant career"
  • "시빌라 = My brilliant career"
  • "Ma brillante carrière"
  • "わが青春の輝き"

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