My Brilliant Career review – a joyously angry take on Stella 'Miles' Franklin's complicated legacy
The chances are that you already know Sybylla: you might have read My Brilliant Career, the novel published in 1901, or seen Gillian Armstrongâs film from 1979. The work, and its author, Stella Maria Sarah âMilesâ Franklin, have left behind a complicated legacy. Franklin was just 16 when she wrote the tumbling, breathless, bold proto-feminist text, and it was not published under a male pseudonym as she had wished (or the title she had wished, with a question mark at the end). Wri...
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