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Her Brilliant Career

The Life of Stella Miles Franklin

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HARDCOVER

$39.95 • £29.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674036093

Publication: September 2009

Short

752 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

72 halftones, 1 map

Belknap Press

Not for sale in Australia and New Zealand

  • Map
  • Prologue
  • Part I: Australia: 1879–April 1906
    • 1. Childhood at Brindabella: 1879–1889
    • 2. Near Goulburn: 1890–1898
    • 3. From ‘Possum Gully’ to Penrith: 1899–1902
    • 4. With Penrith as a Base: 1903–April 1906
  • Part II: America: May 1906–October 1915
    • 5. Among the ‘Murkans’: May 1906–February 1911
    • 6. The Net of Circumstance: March 1911–October 1915
  • Part III: England & Australia: November 1915–December 1932
    • 7. Pack Up Your Troubles—London and the Balkans: November 1915–September 1918
    • 8. At the Heart of the Empire: October 1918–October 1923
    • 9. To be a Pilgrim: November 1923–June 1927
    • 10. Enter Brent of Bin Bin: July 1927–December 1932
  • Part IV: Australia: January 1933–September 1954
    • 11. ‘As a Natural Fact’: 1933–1938
    • 12. Maintaining Our Best Traditions: 1939–1945
    • 13. The Waratah Cup: 1946–1950
    • 15. ‘Shall I Pull Through?’: 1951–1954
  • Afterlife
  • Appendices
    • Principal Published Writings of Miles Franklin
    • Franklin and Bridle/Lampe Family Trees
  • Endnotes
  • Brief Guide to Main and Frequently Cited Sources and Titles of General Significance
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Awards

  • 2010 Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, Non-Fiction Category
  • 2009 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland
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