My Brilliant Career (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

An Australian friend says this book is an Aussie version of Jane Austen I will have to concur because I haven't lived in Australia and she has. It is much grittier than Jane Austen's work though and I suspect Jane would have collapsed into a dead faint if she had been forced to governess the M'Sw...

from charbutton

Written by Franklin at the tender age of 16 (16 for goodness' sake!), My Brilliant Career is the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a young woman growing up in the Australian bush. Her father, once a successful horse breeder, makes bad business decisions and ends up a drunk; her mother is struggling to cop...

from lydia1879

My Brilliant Career is sort of what would happen if Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and the Australian outback and first-wave feminism had a baby. Miles Franklin, though. Stella Marie Sarah Miles Franklin. She struggled for so long to get this book published - it was a success of sorts in the ...

from Kasthu

My Brilliant Career was written when Miles Franklin was only 16, and it shows all the imperfections of youth. Based on Franklin's experiences, the novel is the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a young girl who proves to be too much for her parents to handle, is sent to her grandmother's in the Australian...

from DieFledermaus

This coming-of-age story is distinguished by a number of factors - the setting in Australia, the often shallow, capricious and blithe narrator and the author's refreshing voice. Sybylla Melvyn is the high-spirited, intelligent, pleasure-loving daughter of a cultured mother and a well-loved father...