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Miles Franklin

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born

October 14, 1879 in Talbingo, New South Wales, Australia

died

September 19, 1954

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in 1879 in rural Australia. My Brilliant Career, her first novel, was published to much excitement and acclaim. She moved to Sydney where she became involved in feminist and literary circles and then onto the USA in 1907.

She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major literary award known as the Miles Franklin Award.

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Books by Miles Franklin

Average rating: 3.74 · 900 ratings · 110 reviews · 17 distinct works

	My Brilliant Career 3.74 avg rating — 724 ratings — published 1901 — 58 editions	My rating:
	My Brilliant Career: My Career Goes Bung 3.92 avg rating — 100 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	My Career Goes Bung - Purporting to be the Autobiography Of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn 3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Childhood at Brindabella 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	All That Swagger 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The End of My Career 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Up the Country: A Saga of Pioneering Days 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Bring The Monkey 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:
	On Dearborn Street 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Diaries of Miles Franklin 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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Quotes by Miles Franklin

“Knitting is not enough.”
― Miles Franklin

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“Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.”
― Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career

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