Miles Franklin was an intriguing woman--iconoclastic, mischievous, determined to achieve her literary ambitions, committed to feminist views of marital relationships and women's rights, yet tormented…
Told in the first person from the viewpoint of a male suitor, On Dearborn Street, now published for the first time from an MS…
Kirkby discusses Miles Franklin's time in Chicago and the intersection there of her political and literary activities. Kirkby argues that Franklin's work in the American…