My brilliant career
Book • 2004
My Brilliant Career is a semi-autobiographical novel that follows Sybylla Melvyn, a spirited young woman from a poor farming family in rural Australia.
The novel explores themes of gender, independence, and personal fulfillment as Sybylla navigates societal expectations and her own ambitions.
Written by Miles Franklin at a young age, the book reflects the challenges faced by women in early 20th-century Australia and remains a classic of Australian literature.
The novel explores themes of gender, independence, and personal fulfillment as Sybylla navigates societal expectations and her own ambitions.
Written by Miles Franklin at a young age, the book reflects the challenges faced by women in early 20th-century Australia and remains a classic of Australian literature.
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Recommended by Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker, as an autobiographical novel about a young woman in rural Australia.
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