Dimensions
162 x 241 x 62mm
Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush and became an international publishing sensation with My Brilliant Career at the age of twenty–one. After working for the women's labour movement in Chicago, Miles Franklin moved to London. She left London during World War I to help nurse the wounded in the Balkans, all the while struggling to keep body, soul and typewriter together. Returning to Australia in the 1930s, she determined to take up the cause of Australian writers.
Novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin – Miles Franklin's was a life of enormous range. And her endowment of the Miles Franklin literary award not only surprised all who knew her but founded an Australian literary institution which remains our most prestigious literary award.
This lively and authoritative account of the woman and her times is both a remarkable portrait of a major literary figure and a compelling feat of storytelling.
