My Brilliant CareerThe fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death. |
Contents
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CHAPTER SIX Revolt | 30 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Was Eer a Rose Without Its Thorn? | 37 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Possum Gully Left Behind | 47 |
CHAPTER NINE Aunt Helens Recipe | 57 |
CHAPTER TEN Everard Grey | 64 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN When the Heart Is Young | 102 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Idylls of Youth | 115 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN As Short as I Wish Had Been | 125 |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE My Unladylike | 144 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE Ah For One Hour | 158 |
CHAPTER TWENTYSIX Boast Not Thyself | 175 |
CHAPTER TWENTYNINE To LifeContinued | 193 |
CHAPTER THIRTYONE Mr MSwat and I Have | 210 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN Yah | 73 |
CHAPTER TWELVE One Grand Passion | 81 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 87 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Principally Letters | 96 |
CHAPTER THIRTYFOUR But Absent Friends | 225 |
CHAPTER THIRTYSEVEN He That Despiseth Little | 247 |
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