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My Brilliant Career de Miles Franklin

My Brilliant Career

Autor Miles Franklin
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 ian 2025
The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time

Miles Franklin's debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn - closely modelled on Franklin herself - as she fights to break free of restrictive bush life. Growing up on her parents' outback farm, Sybylla is desperate to read, write, sing and achieve great things. Yet her aspirations for a 'brilliant career' are persistently thwarted, first by the arduous demands of rural family life, and later by the shackles of a proposed conventional marriage to the wealthy Harold Beecham. With only her brilliant, conflicted mind to guide her, Sybylla is forced to define a life on her own terms.
My Brilliant Career is acclaimed for capturing the spirit of Australia at the turn of the twentieth century. The struggles of its fiery, precocious protagonist shine a light on the emergent women's rights and suffrage movement during this period, and memorably evoke the intensity of youth.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241699584
ISBN-10: 0241699584
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 138 x 201 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Clothbound Classics

Notă biografică

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was born in Old Talbingo, Australia. Despite a difficult and isolated childhood - she grew up in the impoverished bush regions of New South Wales, with limited education - she completed her first book at the age of just nineteen. The ironically titled My Brilliant Career (1901) was published under a male pseudonym, to immediate success and acclaim. Its story of an impassioned, ambitious heroine frustrated by rural bush life resonated with young Australian women and established Franklin as a bold new feminist voice in literature.
Following the publication of her debut novel, Franklin moved to Sydney, then on to America and Britain. She wrote and published a total of nineteen books across her lifetime, as well as working as an editor and women's advocate in organisations such as the National Women's Trade Union League. Her endowment of a major literary award - the Miles Franklin Award - has consolidated her legacy in Australian literary life.

Recenzii

Written by a teenager living in the Australian bush in the 1890s and originally published in 1901, Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career is a candid representation of the aspirations and frustrations of a young woman constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. My Brilliant Career has continued to delight readers and to cause them to locate their personal realities in the struggle of Franklin’s heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, to recognize and to pursue what she most wants and needs in her life.
In addition to the rich selection of appendices, this edition includes maps of early twentieth-century Australia and a critical introduction that outlines political and economic developments relevant to the novel, traces the literary landscape upon which My Brilliant Career first appeared, and describes the reception and interpretation given the novel in the century after its initial publication (including the celebrated 1979 film adaptation).

“Bruce K. Martin’s deep understanding of Australian history and literature informs both his textual analyses and his editorial choices. He strikes a praiseworthy balance in his introduction—writing with the precision that will appeal to scholars and the clarity that will keep it accessible to students. I particularly appreciate the book’s added features, such as the chronology, appendices, and bibliography. The appendices are judiciously selected, and provide readers with a clear sense of the climate of the book’s production and reception. With Martin’s expert guidance, the reader deftly navigates the work’s many complexities.” — Linda Watts, University of Washington Bothell

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Written by a teenager living in the Australian bush in the 1890s and originally published in 1901, Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career is a candid representation of the aspirations and frustrations of a young woman constrained by middle-class social arrangements, especially the pressure to marry. My Brilliant Career has continued to delight readers and to cause them to locate their personal realities in the struggle of Franklin’s heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, to recognize and to pursue what she most wants and needs in her life.
In addition to the rich selection of appendices, this edition includes maps of early twentieth-century Australia and a critical introduction that outlines political and economic developments relevant to the novel, traces the literary landscape upon which My Brilliant Career first appeared, and describes the reception and interpretation given the novel in the century after its initial publication (including the celebrated 1979 film adaptation).

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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