Society

My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin

Sybylla Melvyn, clever, restless and furious at being poor and plain, grows up on a struggling farm in the bush of New South Wales and refuses the life laid out for her. Miles Franklin wrote it in her teens, and it was published in Edinburgh in 1901 with a preface by Henry Lawson. Australia’s best-known literary prize is named after her.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 6 hours

Where to find it

The Australian Room, at the Antipodes

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #11620. In the public domain in the United States.