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, 1906-151 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Discusses gender relations and fears about ‘the white slave trade’ in Miles Franklin’s unpublished novel.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 Morant1 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 - 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 - Bringing Franklin Up to Date : The Film of ‘My Brilliant Career’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’1 October 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 Novel1 May 1977
- Miles Franklin’s Topical Writings : A Listing
A listing of Miles Franklin’s uncollected topical writings, with introduction.
1 May 2001 - Gender, Genre, and Sybylla’s Performative Identity in Miles Franklin’s ‘My Brilliant Career’
Sybylla Melvyn, narrator of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), has troubled readers from the start. William Blackwood, editor, felt impelled to 'tone down' her…
1 October 1997 - Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career and the Female Tradition1 May 1980
Contributors
- Delys Bird
- Margaret Bettison
- Jack Clancy
- Roy Duncan
- Stephen Garton
- Jane Hunt
- Ian Henderson
- Dianne Kirkby
- Janet Lee
- Susan Lever
- Janet Lee
- Susan Magarey
- Susan Magarey
- Frances McInherny
- Jill Roe
- Jill Roe
- Walter Stone
- Susan Sheridan
- Bruce Scates
- Elizabeth Webby
- Shirley Walker