My Brilliant Career

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Title My Brilliant Career

Author	Miles Franklin
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	William Blackwood & Sons
Released	1901
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	319 pp
ISBN	NA
Followed by	My Career Goes Bung

My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel by Miles Franklin. It is the first of many novels by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879-1954), one of the major Australian writers of her time. It was written while she was still a teenager, as a romance to amuse her friends. Franklin submitted the manuscript to Henry Lawson who contributed a preface and took it to his own publishers in Edinburgh. The popularity of the novel in Australia and the perceived closeness of many of the characters to her own family and circumstances as small farmers in New South Wales near Goulburn caused Franklin a great deal of distress and led her to withdrawing the novel from publication until after her death.

Shortly after the publication of My Brilliant Career, Franklin wrote a sequel, My Career Goes Bung, which would not be published until 1946.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Film, TV or theatrical adaptations 3 Allusions/references from other works 4 Release details 5 External links

Plot summary

The heroine, Sybylla, a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man (Harry), but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, instead being forced to take a job as governess/housekeeper to the family of an illiterate neighbour to whom her father owes money.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

In the 1979 film adaptation, Sybylla was played by Judy Davis and Harry by Sam Neill. The film was directed by Gillian Armstrong and produced by Margaret Fink. It won numerous awards and was nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design.

Allusions/references from other works

Western Australian band The Panics released a song of the same name on their debut EP in 2002, which is presumably named after the book.

Release details

• 1901, Australia, William Blackwood & Sons (ISBN NA), Pub date ? ? 1901, hardback (First edition)
• 1980, UK, Virago Press (ISBN 0-86068-193-9), Pub date 14 July 1980, paperback
• 1980, UK, St Martins Press (ISBN 0-312-55599-7), Pub date ? October 1980, hardback
• 1987, UK, G K Hall & Co (ISBN 0-8161-4158-4), Pub date ? February 1987, hardback
• 2006, USA, Filiquarian Publishing (ISBN 1-59986-972-1), Pub date 16 May 2006, paperback

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