My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant CareerMiles Franklin

My Brilliant Career (1965)

Miles Franklin

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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hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297713/my-brilliant-career-by-miles-franklin/

ISBN:
9781863407052
Length:
257 pages

Genres: classics

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I really like Sabella as a character I feel like she was really interesting and well developed and I liked her kind of character Arc and the way that kind of convention and gender roles were kind of explored in this book I just thought it was a really good read and definitely one I'd recommend

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