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Stella Miles Franklin
Jill Roe
Fourth Estate
Biography and Memoir
Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush and, at the age of twentyâ one, became an international publishing sensation with My Brilliant Career. Miles' early success gave her entrée to literary and socialist circles in Sydney and Melbourne. There she met Banjo Paterson, the Goldstein sisters, and Joseph Furphy, among others. But by 1906 she had decided to make the bold move to travel overseas, and went to work for the women's labour movement in Chicago, in 1915 she relocated to London and travelled to the Balkans to help nurse wounded Allied soldiers. Returning to London she worked for various feminist and progressive causes, all the while continuing to write. In the 1930s she returned to Australia and determined to take up the cause of Australian writers. Roe presents an engaging account of Franklin as novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin.
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