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Her Brilliant Career
Jill Roe
其他書名
The Life of Stella Miles Franklin
出版Harvard University Press, 2009
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / WomenHistory / Australia & New ZealandLiterary Criticism / Australian & OceanianSocial Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
ISBN06740360939780674036093
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-R_iLApWE28C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Born in the Australian bush, Stella Miles Franklin became an international publishing sensation in 1901, at the age of 21, with My Brilliant Career, whose portrayal of an ambitious and independent woman defying social expectations still captivates readers. This biography details this early success that launched Miles into influential literary and socialist circles in Sydney and Melbourne, where she met Banjo Paterson (composer of Waltzing Matilda and author of The Man from Snowy River) and suffragist Vida Goldstein (who introduced her to Christian Science). Researching the lives of working women, Miles disguised herself as a domestic for a year. She then lit out for adventure abroad, landing in San Francisco just after the Great Earthquake. At Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago, she joined the women's labor movement, working for the National Women's Trade Union League and writing for its magazine. Moving to Britain in 1915, Miles joined the war cause and served in Macedonia as a hospital orderly and then worked in London for various feminist and progressive causes, including the National Housing Council. Always she wrote, becoming a prolific author of plays as well as novels and archetypal bush stories. Returning to Australia in the 1930s, she supported women's causes and promoted Australian writers, leaving her estate to endow the nation's premier literary award.