Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography
|
On Sale:
|
1/04/2010
|
|
Formats:
Trade paperback
|
|
|
|
|
′a long-awaited and splendidly breezy blockbuster biography of the indefatigable, self-inventing and campaigning author of My Brilliant Career′ Richard Holmes, AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
′To meet Miles Franklin was as invigorating as to ride on a spring morning across the Monaro plains she so dearly loved′ Henrietta Drake-Brockman
Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush. At the age of twenty-one, she became an international publishing sensation with MY BRILLIANT CAREER, which more than a century later is still regarded as an Australian classic. Miles′ early success gave her entrée to literary and socialist circles in Sydney and Melbourne. There she met Banjo Paterson, the Goldstein sisters and Joseph Furphy, among others. In 1906 she went to work for the women′s labour movement in Chicago. In 1915 she relocated to London and quickly found herself travelling to the Balkans to help nurse wounded Allied soldiers. Returning to London, she campaigned for various feminist and progressive causes, all the while continuing to write, often submitting work under pseudonyms that she guarded fiercely all her life. In the 1930s she returned to Australia, taking up the cause of Australian writers. Novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist, larrikin - Miles Franklin was all these and more. And her endowment of the Miles Franklin Literary Award founded an Australian cultural institution that remains our most prestigious prize for literature.′more than the definitive biography of Australia′s most gregarious literary figure′ WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
′Roe′s mighty biography of a woman who was pivotal to the culture during a formative period of Australian literary life is meticulous and welcome′ Hilary McPhee, THE AUSTRALIAN
|
|
|
Author Extras
|
|
|
|
Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography
Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush and, at the age of twenty-one, became an international publishing sensation with My Brilliant Career. The book struck a chord with women and girls all over the country, and more than a century later is still regarded as an...
|
|
My Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters
A new edition of the sparkling correspondence of one of Australia′s most cherished literary icons Miles Franklin wrote the first of these letters at Brindabella in 1887, over a decade before she started My Brilliant Career, the novel that famously propelled her out of the bush and on...
|
|
|
Then Again
By Diane Keaton
From the woman know to millions as Annie Hall, THEN AGAIN is the fascinating story of an actress′s rise to fame, of her relationships with brilliant talents such as Woody Allen and Al Pacino, and her struggle with bulimia. But it is also an account of her family, a lively...
|
|
Dare To Dream: Life As One Direction (100% Official)
By One Direction
"In 2010 they were just five normal boys, who didn′t even know each other, dreaming of being up on stage, with fans screaming their names... so much has happened for One Direction since then! Following their huge success on The X Factor, and the hysteria they caused...
|
|
Brutal: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Little Girl's Stolen Innocence
By Nabila Sharma
At six years old, Nabila Sharma began her lessons at the Mosque as every good Muslim girl does. But from the minute she looked up at her Imam, the man who held her spiritual future in his hands, she knew something was wrong. Over the next five years Nabila′s life became...
|
|
View more new releases »
|
|
|
|