My Brilliant Career

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Penguin, Oct 2, 2007 - Fiction - 288 pages
The 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hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death.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

PREFACE
1
CHAPTER TWO An Introduction to Possum Gully
9
CHAPTER FOUR A Career Which Soon
17
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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Sandra M. Gilbert teaches at the University of California, Davis.

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