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Miles Franklin


Born
in Talbingo, New South Wales, Australia
October 14, 1879

Died
September 19, 1954

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in 1879 in rural New South Wales. My Brilliant Career , her first novel, was published to much excitement and acclaim. She moved to Sydney where she became involved in feminist and literary circles and then onto the United States of America in 1907.

She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and organisations of writers. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major literary award known as the Miles Franklin Award. ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 8,712 ratings · 798 reviews · 56 distinct works • Similar authors
My Brilliant Career
3.80 avg rating — 7,633 ratings — published 1901 — 42 editions
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My Brilliant Career / My Ca...
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My Career Goes Bung
3.56 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1946 — 23 editions
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Childhood at Brindabella
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All That Swagger (Sirius Qu...
3.71 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1936 — 17 editions
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Up the Country: A Saga of P...
3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1928 — 20 editions
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The End of My Career
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Bring the Monkey
2.84 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1933 — 13 editions
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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
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Ten Creeks Run
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“I am afflicted with the power of thought, which is a heavy curse. The less a person thinks and inquires regarding the why and the wherefore and the justice of things, when dragging along through life, the happier it is for him, and doubly, trebly so, for her.”
― Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
tags: comprehension, feminism, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, miles-franklin, solitude
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“Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.”
― Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
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“I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.”
― Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career
tags: australian-literature, disappointment, feminism, god, gods-will, miles-franklin
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