Miles Franklin was an Australian writer. She was born at Talbingo, New South Wales and grew up in the Brindabella Valley. Franklin is best known for "My Brilliant Career", the story of an irrepressible teenage feminist growing to womanhood in rural New South Wales. This heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is one of the most endearing characters in Australian literature and obviously has much in common with Franklin herself, who wrote the novel while she was still a teenager. Wikipedia
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