Miles Franklin (My Brilliant Career)

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An Australian author — and the 1979 film adaptation of her work — capture Kim and Amy’s fancy this week on the show. Published in 1901 and written when author Miles Franklin was only eighteen years old, My Brilliant Career became an instant classic of Australian literature and still delights readers with its feisty heroine, Sybylla Melvin, and its realistic depiction of Australian life and lingo at the turn of the 20th century. In our discussion of the novel and its film adaptation (starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill) we’ll explain why Franklin’s fear of being a literary one-hit-wonder proved unfounded, and why her name today graces one of Australia’s top annual literary prizes.

Mentioned in this episode:

Miles Franklin

My Brilliant Career (amazon.com/My-Brilliant-Career-Judy-Davis/dp/B…) film

My Brilliant Career (gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00092.html) novel

Judy Davis

Sam Neill

DirectorGillain Armstrong (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Armstrong)

Oscar and Lucinda

Charlotte Grey

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood_(publishing_ho…)’s publishing house

Anne of Green Gables (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Green_Gables_(19…))

The Thorn Birds (amazon.com/Thorn-Birds-Richard-Chamberlain/dp/…)

Brent of Bin Bin (theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/b…)

Up the Country (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Country_(novel)) by Brent of Bin Bin

Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 128 (lostladiesoflit.com/transcripts/128-margaret-o…) on Margaret Oliphant

Henry Lawson (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lawson)

Cold Comfort Farm (amazon.com/Cold-Comfort-Farm-Stella-Gibbons-eb…) by Stella Gibbons

Bring the Monkey (gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0801301h.html) by Miles Franklin

My Career Goes Bung (gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900281h.html)by Miles Franklin

All That Swagger (gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800961h.html) by Miles Franklin

S.H. Prior Memorial Prize (gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800961h.html)

The Miles Franklin Award (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Franklin_Award)

The Stella Prize (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Prize)

Miles Franklin: A Short Biography (amazon.com/Miles-Franklin/dp/1460755790) by Jill Roe

Of Foreign Lands and Peoples (youtube.com/watch?v=S2SQ9T-u7DY)
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