Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin (born "Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin", 1879 - 1954) was an Australian writer. She was born in New South Wales.

After the publication of "My Brilliant Career" in 1901, Franklin tried a career in nursing, and then as a housemaid in Sydney and Melbourne. Whilst doing this she wrote as a freelance journalist for the Daily Telegraph and the Sydney Morning Herald under the pseudonyms "An Old Bachelor" and "Vernacular".

In 1906, Franklin travelled to the USA and undertook secretarial and editorial work for Alice Henry, another Australian, in the National Women's Trade Union league. In 1915, she travelled to England and worked as a nurse in the Scottish Women's Hospital at Ostrovo in the Serbian campaigns of 1917-1918. She resettled back in Australia in 1932.

Miles Franklin died in 1954. In her will she bequeathed her estate to establish an annual literary award known as The Miles Franklin Award.

Table of contents

1 Selected works 2 Novels 3 Under the pseudonym of "Brent of Bin Bin" 4 Non-Fiction

Selected works

Novels

• My Brilliant Career 1901
• Some Everyday Folk and Dawn 1909
• Old Blastus of Bandicoot 1931
• Bring the Monkey 1933
• All That Swagger 1936
• Pioneers on Parade 1939 - with Dymphna Cusack
• My Career Goes Bung 1946

Under the pseudonym of "Brent of Bin Bin"

• Up the Country 1928
• Ten Creeks Run 1930
• Back to Bool Bool 1931
• Prelude to Waking 1950
• Cockatoos 1955
• Gentleman at Gyang Gyang 1956

Non-Fiction

• Joseph Furphy: The Legend of a Man and His Book 1944
• Laughter, Not for a Cage 1956
• Childhood at Brindabella 1963