Back to Bool Bool

by Miles Franklin

'Back to Bool Bool' was published under the pseudonym 'Brent of Bin Bin' in 1931. Franklin's debut novel, 'My Brilliant Career' (1901) was her greatest literary success. She went on to publish another thirteen novels and three non-fiction works. Miles Franklin (Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin) was an influential Australian author and feminist committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations.

554 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 2012

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Julie Bye · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't find this the equal of other Miles Franklin novels. She seems preoccupied with social change than her art. It featured characters struggling to escape from general Aussie life to take a place in the arts world. A number of romances feature in the story with the result that you're not quite sure which is the focus. Franklin's prose is elegant as always, but read with a dictionary beside you. The dictionary in my kindle only found 50 per cent of the words.