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My Brilliant Career de Miles Franklin

My Brilliant Career: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Miles Franklin Introducere de Carmen Callil
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iul 1980
NOW A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILM WITH BAFTA WINNING ACTRESS, JUDY DAVIS

'A splendidly vivid display . . . its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice' THE TIMES

'An insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration' ANITA SETHI, GUARDIAN

'It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius' NEW YORK TIMES

First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. For Sybylla longs for a more refined, aesthetic lifestyle - to read, to think, to sing, but most of all to do great things.

Suddenly her life is transformed. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a brilliant career.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780860681939
ISBN-10: 0860681939
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 196 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

A splendidly vivid display . . . carrying the reader by force of its narrative and its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice
Miles Franklin's 1901 debut novel remains an insightful exploration of class, gender and youthful frustration
It combines linguistic surprise and inertness in a way possible only to genius
My Brilliant Career blends the intimacy of life writing with the broader scope of a story being retold
Unashamedly high-spirited and romantic

Notă biografică

Sandra M. Gilbert teaches at the University of California, Davis.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Map 1: Australia and New Zealand in 1904
Map 2: Miles Franklin Country
Introduction
Miles Franklin and My Brilliant Career: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
My Brilliant Career
Appendix A: Correspondence Related to the Publication of My Brilliant Career
  1. Miles Franklin to Angus & Robertson (30 March 1899)
  2. Miles Franklin to Henry Lawson (19 November 1899)
  3. Henry Lawson to Miles Franklin (January 1900)
  4. Miles Franklin to Henry Lawson (19 April 1900)
  5. William Blackwood to James B. Pinker (29 January 1901)
  6. Miles Franklin to William Blackwood (6 February 1901)
  7. James B. Pinker to Miles Franklin (15 April 1901)
  8. Miles Franklin to James B. Pinker (18 November 1901)
  9. James B. Pinker to Miles Franklin (30 December 1901)
Appendix B: Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Australian Feminist Perspectives
  1. From Ada Cambridge, Unspoken Thoughts (1887)
    1. “Fallen”
    2. “An Answer”
  2. From Louisa Lawson, The Dawn (June 1889)
    1. “Unhappy Love Matches”
  3. From Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Australian Woman’s Sphere (January 1902)
    1. “The Two Laws”
  4. From Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies (1902)
    1. “The Chosen Vessel”
  5. Rose Scott (1847-1925)
    1. “Woman to Man”
  6. From Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (1909)
Appendix C: Early Responses to My Brilliant Career
  1. Henry Lawson, “Preface” to the first edition of My Brilliant Career (1901)
  2. The Academy (July/December 1901)
  3. “Recent Novels,” The Times (23 August 1901)
  4. “A Bookful of Sunlight,” The Bulletin (23 September 1901)
  5. The Weekly Critical Review (17 September 1903)
  6. “Miles Franklin,” Australian Woman’s Sphere (15 April 1904)
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