WRITER

Miles Franklin

1879 - 1954

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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miles Franklin has received more than 331,107 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Miles Franklin is the 6,750th most popular writer (down from 6,202nd in 2019), the 493rd most popular biography from Australia (down from 468th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Australian Writer.

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Notable Works

Bring the Monkey
2021
Childhood at Brindabella
Biography, Australian Novelists, Childhood and youth
1963
My Brilliant Career
Fiction, Fiction, general
1980
On Dearborn Street
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918 in fiction, Fiction
1981
Up the country
1951
My Brilliant Career
Literature, Fiction, Young women in fiction
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death. [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297713/my-brilliant-career-by-miles-franklin/][1] [1]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297713/my-brilliant-career-by-miles-franklin/
1965
My Brilliant Career
Literature, Fiction, Young women in fiction
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Brilliant Career when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to Jane Eyre. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death. [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297713/my-brilliant-career-by-miles-franklin/][1] [1]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297713/my-brilliant-career-by-miles-franklin/
1965
Up the country
1951
Childhood at Brindabella
Biography, Australian Novelists, Childhood and youth
1963
On Dearborn Street
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918 in fiction, Fiction
1981
My Brilliant Career
Fiction, Fiction, general
1980
Bring the Monkey
2016

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Miles Franklin ranks 6,750 out of 7,302. Before her are Ilija Trojanow, Jay McInerney, Ihor Pavlyuk, Zoe Akins, Dave Eggers, and Maja Haderlap. After her are Susan Abulhawa, Maggie O'Farrell, Alexandre Jardin, Sally Rooney, H. Beam Piper, and Kamel Daoud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Miles Franklin ranks 268. Before her are C. H. Douglas, Coenraad Hiebendaal, Julius Falkenstein, Kathlyn Williams, Harry Kerr, and Thomas Meighan.  Among people deceased in 1954, Miles Franklin ranks 170. Before her are Frederick Humphreys, Ellen Roosevelt, Moroni Olsen, Karl Taylor Compton, Bobby Ball, and William Dod. After her is Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Miles Franklin ranks 493 out of 1,143. Before her are Matt Passmore (1973), Robbie McEwen (1972), Anthony Šerić (1979), Robert Taylor (1963), Frederick McCubbin (1855), and Kate Allen (1970). After her are Boy Charlton (1907), Katherine Langford (1996), Paul McNamee (1954), Frank B. Zoltowski (1957), Mark Bosnich (1972), and Natasha Liu Bordizzo (1994).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Miles Franklin ranks 30. Before her are Kate Morton (1976), David Malouf (1934), DBC Pierre (1961), Mary Augusta Ward (1851), Les Murray (1938), and Liane Moriarty (1966). After her are Donna Williams (1963), Richard Flanagan (1961), Geraldine Brooks (1955), Louisa Lawson (1848), Garth Nix (1963), and Adam Elliot (1972).

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