My Brilliant Career

Zusatztext A splendidly vivid display ... carrying the reader by force of its narrative and its sharply detailed! entirely convincing voice Informationen zum Autor Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was born into a pioneering family settled in New South Wales, Australia. She wrote My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen. Publication in 1901 brought instant fame and a notoriety that was so unwelcome that she forbade its republication until ten years after her death. Franklin then went to America, where she worked for the Women's Trade Union League, and later London and Salonika, where she did war work as a political secretary for the National Housing Council. In 1933 she returned to Australia, where she spent the rest of her life. My Career Goes Bung, the sequel to My Brilliant Career, was published in 1946, and her autobiography, Childhood at Brindabella, posthumously in 1963. Klappentext The gripping story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the sixteen-year-old author at the time. Vorwort The gripping story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the sixteen-year-old author at the time. Zusammenfassung The gripping story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the sixteen-year-old author at the time.

Product details

• Authors: Miles Franklin
• Assisted by: Carmen Callil (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.07.1980
• EAN: 9780860681939
• ISBN: 978-0-86068-193-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Romance, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction: general and literary