Stella miles franklin
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Woman Franklin, Stella Maria(n) Sarah Miles ( - )
Stella Miles Franklin was a leading writer who published under the pseudonyms Miles Franklin and Brent of Bin insekter som pollinerar. She was born in Talbingo in , the daughter of grazier John Franklin of Bin insekter som pollinerar station and his wife Susannah (nee Lampe). Brought up on the classics of English literature she enjoyed a happy childhood in the wildness of the Brindabella Ranges until she was nine when circumstances forced the family to become 'cocky' farmers. It was a life of poverty and drudgery and endless childbearing for her mother that affected Miles' attitude to marriage. Miles did not complete secondary schooling; her only qualification was an honours certificate in music. She had a talent for writing however and at sixteen commenced her novel My Brilliant Career, writing by candlelight after a hard day's work on the farm. When Angus and Robertson rejected the novel, she turned for advice to the writer Henry Lawson, who arranged
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Miles Franklin, author - portrait, / Rozelle Studio, Auburn St. Goulburn
Miles Franklin is a central figure in Australia’s literary landscape.
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born on 14 October at Old Talbingo Homestead, near Tumut, New South Wales, the home of her maternal grandmother, Sarah Lampe. One of the greatest Australian writers of the twentieth century, ‘Miles’ commemorated Edward Miles, an illiterate ancestor who had arrived in Sydney as a convict in
Jill Roe, one of Franklin's biographers, describes Franklin's mother Susannah (born ) as ‘a well-regulated and rather humourless person’ and her father John (born ) as a ‘native-born bushman [with] a touch of poetry in his make-up’. The family lived at Brindabella station in a valley on the western edge of present-day Canberra, kilometres along treacherous mountain tracks from Talbingo. Stella — as she was always known to those closest to her — was their first child but soon joined by a sister. Eventua
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Miles Franklin
Australian writer and feminist ()
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| Born | Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin ()14 October Talbingo, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 19 September () (aged&#;74) Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia |
| Other&#;names | Brent of Bin Bin, An Old Bachelor, Vernacular, Ogniblat, Mr and Mrs Ogniblat L'Artsau |
| Known&#;for | Novelist, writer, feminist |
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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October &#;&#; 19 September ),[1] 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 While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until
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. She has had a l