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| Miles Franklin ( - ) |
Brief Biography
Miles Franklin was born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin in on the grazing property, Talbingo, of her maternal grandmother near Tumut in New South Wales.
Miles franklin author biography outlines
She spent the early part of her life at Brindabella, the family home station in the Monaro region of NSW. In the family moved to a property near Goulburn, NSW, and then in to Penrith, a suburb on the western outskirts of Sydney and finally in to Carlton, an inner suburb of Sydney.
After the publication of My Brilliant Career in , Franklin tried a career in nursing, and then as a housemaid in both Sydney and Melbourne. While cultivating her literary contacts with such writers as Joseph Furphy, Norman Lindsay and Henry Lawson she wrote as a freelance journalist for the Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald under the pseudonyms 'An Old Bachelor" and 'Vernacular'.
She then became involved in the early Australian feminist movement via her friendship with Rose Sco