My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

Novel
Book language: English
245 pages

An Australian coming-of-age novel first published in 1901. It follows Sybylla Melvyn, a young woman in rural New South Wales who longs for independence and creative work while resisting pressure to marry. It offers a vivid, intimate portrait of a girl's ambitions and the limits placed on women of her time.

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My Brilliant Career
1901
Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE I Remember, I Remember
CHAPTER TWO An Introduction to Possum Gully
CHAPTER THREE A Lifeless Life
CHAPTER FOUR A Career Which Soon Careered To An End
CHAPTER FIVE Disjointed Sketches And Grumbles
CHAPTER SIX Revolt
CHAPTER SEVEN Was E’er a Rose Without Its Thorn?
CHAPTER EIGHT Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!
CHAPTER NINE Aunt Helen’s Recipe
CHAPTER TEN Everard Grey
CHAPTER ELEVEN Yah!
CHAPTER TWELVE One Grand Passion
CHAPTER THIRTEEN He
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Principally Letters
CHAPTER FIFTEEN When the Heart is Young
CHAPTER SIXTEEN When Fortune Smiles
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Idylls of Youth
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear
CHAPTER NINETEEN The 9th of November 1896
CHAPTER TWENTY Same Yarn—continued
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE My Unladylike Behaviour Again
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Sweet Seventeen
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Because?

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