Miles Franklin

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.…

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…

In 1903 A.G. Stephens, literary editor and mentor, wrote to Miles Franklin about the ' bruise ' scene in My Brilliant Career. 'Is this…

Discusses gender relations and fears about ‘the white slave trade’ in Miles Franklin’s unpublished novel.

'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…

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…

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…

‘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…

Told in the first person from the viewpoint of a male suitor, On Dearborn Street, now published for the first time from an MS…

From the perspective of 200 I, this book appears to have appeared on the scene at exactly the right time - it was Federation year…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The trouble with historians, Miles Franklin wrote in 1947, is that they are far too fond of 'repetition' . She may well have been right…

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…

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…

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…

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…