Miles Franklin
Articles
- Review of Miles Franklin by Marjorie Barnard
In an interesting and well-founded Foreword to this volume Professor A. R Chisholm makes two points which would have to be made by any reviewer.…
1 May 1969 - Miles Franklin on Dearborn Street, Chicago, 1906-15
Kirkby discusses Miles Franklin's time in Chicago and the intersection there of her political and literary activities. Kirkby argues that Franklin's work in the American…
1 May 1982 - Contesting Enslavement : Marriage, Manhood and My Brilliant Career
In 1903 A.G. Stephens, literary editor and mentor, wrote to Miles Franklin about the ' bruise ' scene in My Brilliant Career. 'Is this…
1 October 2002 - Miles Franklin on American Manhood and White Slavery : The Case of ‘Red Cross Nurse’
Discusses gender relations and fears about ‘the white slave trade’ in Miles Franklin’s unpublished novel.
1 May 2007 - My Brilliant Career and Feminism
'Do you remember Miss Spence's novel Clara Morison,' Miles Franklin asked Alice Henry in September 1930. 'I had no idea the dear old valiant…
1 October 2002 - Reading My Brilliant Career
Some years ago I was teaching a course on nineteenth-century Australian literature which involved lectures on both Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901) and Joseph…
1 October 2002 - The Boer War: Paterson, Abbott, Brennan, Miles Franklin and Morant
Discusses Australian literary responses to the Boer War. including Banjo Paterson's dispatches from the Front and J.H. Abbott's first-hand account as a soldier reflect and…
1 October 1985 - My Brilliant Career and 1890s Goulburn
‘Evidence from the novel, the Franklin Papers at the Mitchell Library, and the wonderfully informative Goulburn Evening Post indicates that while Franklin always insisted “the…
1 October 2002 - Review of On Dearborn Street by Miles Franklin
Told in the first person from the viewpoint of a male suitor, On Dearborn Street, now published for the first time from an MS…
1 May 1982 - My Brilliant Career : The Career of the Career
From the perspective of 200 I, this book appears to have appeared on the scene at exactly the right time - it was Federation year…
1 October 2002 - Review of Miles Franklin in America: Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career by Verna Coleman
Miles Franklin was an intriguing woman--iconoclastic, mischievous, determined to achieve her literary ambitions, committed to feminist views of marital relationships and women's rights, yet tormented…
1 October 1982 - Bringing Franklin Up to Date: The Film of My Brilliant Career
Clancy examines Gillian Armstrong's 1979 adaptation of My Brilliant Career, focusing on the film's approach to narrative structure and its position in contemporary Australian…
1 May 1980 - Review of M y Congenials: Miles Franklin & Friends in Letters, edited by Jill Roe.
I am acquainted with at least one writer who believes that letter-writing saps creative energy which might be directed to the more public art forms…
1 May 1995 - Miles Franklin and ‘The Survivors’
The manuscript of Stella Miles Franklin's play 'The Survivors' is marked 'Shawondasee, August, 1908'. Shawondasee is in the small, historic seaside town of Stonington, Connecticut…
1 May 2011 - ‘Unrelaxing Fortitude’ : Susannah Franklin
When Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career was published in 1901, members of the public, as well as the extended Franklin family, assumed the work to…
1 October 2002 - My Brilliant Career and Radicalism
The trouble with historians, Miles Franklin wrote in 1947, is that they are far too fond of 'repetition' . She may well have been right…
1 October 2002 - Towards an Aesthetics of Australian Women’s Fiction: My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom
Discusses the necessity for a theory of Australian woman's culture through which to read Australian novels authored by women. Drawing on insights from Virginia Woolf…
1 October 1983 - Review of Miles Franklin: Her Brilliant Career by Colin Roderick
When Miles Franklin's name is mentioned now—unlike ten years ago—the response is less likely to be 'who's he?' Gillian Armstrong's successful film of My Brilliant…
1 May 1983 - Review of Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography, by Jill Roe.
In recent decades, the name 'Miles Franklin' has been best known for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, an antipodean Booker or Pulitzer. It is given…
1 October 2010 - Miles Franklin - An Unpublished Teenage Novel
When My Brilliant Career appeared in 1901 it was rightly discerned by the Bulletin to be a remarkable piece of work. Not only did it…
1 May 1977
Contributors
- Delys Bird
- Jack Clancy
- Roy Duncan
- Stephen Garton
- Jane Hunt
- Dianne Kirkby
- Dianne Kirkby
- Dianne Kirkby
- Valerie Kent
- Janet Lee
- Susan Lever
- Janet Lee
- Susan Magarey
- Susan Magarey
- Jill Roe
- Walter Stone
- Susan Sheridan
- Bruce Scates
- Elizabeth Webby
- Shirley Walker