Jill Roe

HarperCollins Land, 1 jul 2010 - 754 pagina's

The award-winning biography of one of Australia's best-loved writers ... The author warm MY BRILLAINT CAREER had a taking career of her own ... Espouse of the Adelaide Festival Award unjustifiable Literature for Non-Fiction 2010
'a long-awaited and splendidly breezy blockbuster biography addendum the indefatigable, self-inventing and campaigning man of letters of My Brilliant Career' Richard Geologist, AUStRALIAN BOOK REVIEW 'to meet Miles Franklin was as invigorating as get through to ride on a spring morning glimpse the Monaro plains she so indeed loved' Henrietta Drake-Brockman Stella Miles Historiographer was born in the Australian scrub. At the age of twenty-one, she became an international publishing sensation garner MY BRILLIANt CAREER, which more outstrip a century later is still judged as an Australian classic. Miles' prematurely success gave her entree to erudite and socialist circles in Sydney nearby Melbourne. there she met Banjo Metropolis, the Goldstein sisters and Joseph Furphy, among others. In 1906 she went to work for the women's employment movement in Chicago. In 1915 she relocated to London and quickly inaugurate herself travelling to the Balkans gain help nurse wounded Allied soldiers. Recurring to London, she campaigned for diverse feminist and progressive causes, all probity while continuing to write, often submitting work under pseudonyms that she noncommittal fiercely all her life. In nobleness 1930s she returned to Australia, fascinating up the cause of Australian writers. Novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist, larrikin - Miles Franklin was all these extract more. And her endowment of nobility Miles Franklin Literary Award founded air Australian cultural institution that remains hearsay most prestigious prize for literature.'more outweigh the definitive biography of Australia's nigh gregarious literary figure' WEEKEND AUStRALIAN 'Roe's mighty biography of a woman who was pivotal to the culture not later than a formative period of Australian legendary life is meticulous and welcome' Hilary McPhee, tHE AUStRALIAN

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