Miles Franklin

In an interesting and well-founded Foreword to this volume Professor A. R Chisholm makes two points which would have to be made by any reviewer.…

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…

Tracks the troubled relationships between Sybylla Melwyn and the men in My Brilliant Career, arguing that 'there is something more to male-female relations in…

Discusses gender relations and fears about ‘the white slave trade’ in Miles Franklin’s unpublished novel.

Considers My Brilliant Career in terms of Franklin's dual commitments to literature and politics: 'Could it be argued ... that Miles Franklin was so committedly…

Places My Brilliant Career in the wider context of late nineteenth century Australian writing and literary cultures, examining its position in the Australian literary canon…

Discusses Australian literary responses to the Boer War. including Banjo Paterson's dispatches from the Front and J.H. Abbott's first-hand account as a soldier reflect and…

‘Evidence from the novel, the Franklin Papers at the Mitchell Library, and the wonderfully informative Goulburn Evening Post indicates that while Franklin always insisted “the…

Told in the first person from the viewpoint of a male suitor, On Dearborn Street, now published for the first time from an MS…

Sheridan examines the somewhat chequered publication history and critical reception of My Brilliant Career, one hundred years after it was first published by Blackwood…

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…

Clancy examines Gillian Armstrong's 1979 adaptation of My Brilliant Career, focusing on the film's approach to narrative structure and its position in contemporary Australian…

I am acquainted with at least one writer who believes that letter-writing saps creative energy which might be directed to the more public art forms…

The manuscript of Stella Miles Franklin's play 'The Survivors' is marked 'Shawondasee, August, 1908'. Shawondasee is in the small, historic seaside town of Stonington, Connecticut…

When Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career was published in 1901, members of the public, as well as the extended Franklin family, assumed the work to…

Assesses and 'rehabilitates' the radicalism of My Brilliant Career, augmenting previous critical considerations of the topic by placing in the novel in the context…

In the history of women's writing in Australia, 1992 may well earn the title of the year of the letters, given the coincidental publication of…

Discusses the necessity for a theory of Australian woman's culture through which to read Australian novels authored by women. Drawing on insights from Virginia Woolf…

When Miles Franklin's name is mentioned now—unlike ten years ago—the response is less likely to be 'who's he?' Gillian Armstrong's successful film of My Brilliant…

In recent decades, the name 'Miles Franklin' has been best known for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, an antipodean Booker or Pulitzer. It is given…