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Neill’s memoir, spurred by a cancer diagnosis, delves into the twists and turns of an unusual life.

Neill’s memoir, spurred by a cancer diagnosis, delves into the twists and turns of an unusual life.

Don’t look back: the year the world was finally wowed by our culture We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Don’t look back: the year the world was finally wowed by our culture As The Sydney Morning Herald celebrates its 190th birthday, three leading Australian writers consider the stepping stones to the development of Sydney’s artistic culture. April 23, 2021 — 4.00pm Save Normal text size Advertisement Everything changed in...

Belvoir’s My Brilliant Career opens with a birth. The moans and screams of a woman in labour overlay a cheeky, self-reflexive declaration to the audience from a young woman with bursting red curls: ‘This is not a romance.’ This opening is no coincidence, rather director Kate Champion establishes the battle of the play: between a young woman’s hunger for success and the ever present antagonists of her world – poverty, marriage, and the knowledge that she must choose one to escape the ...

The chances are that you already know Sybylla: you might have read My Brilliant Career, the novel published in 1901, or seen Gillian Armstrong’s film from 1979. The work, and its author, Stella Maria Sarah “Miles” 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...