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A Short Biography of Miles Franklin

Author Name:

Miles Franklin

Born As:

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin

Other Names:

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin

Born:

14 Oct 1879

Died:

19 Sep 1954




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Selected works:

Novels:

My Brilliant Career - 1901
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn - 1909
Old Blastus of Bandicoot - 1931
Bring the Monkey - 1933
All That Swagger - 1936
Pioneers on Parade - 1939 - with Dymphna Cusack
My Career Goes Bung - 1946
On Dearborn Street - 1981

Under the pseudonym of "Brent of Bin Bin"

Up the Country - 1928
Ten Creeks Run - 1930
Back to Bool Bool - 1931
Prelude to Waking - 1950
Cockatoos 1955
Gentleman at Gyang Gyang - 1956

Non-Fiction:

Joseph Furphy: The Legend of a Man and His Book - 1944
Laughter, Not for a Cage - 1956
Childhood at Brindabella - 1963.                          
                          
Best known for her autobiographical novel, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901 - with the support of Australian writer, Henry Lawson.                          
Wrote My Career Goes Bung in which Sybylla encounters the Sydney literary set. The book proved too hot to publish and did not become available to the public until 1946.

In 1937, Franklin rejected an OBE.