Papers of Miles Franklin, 1887-[ca. 1931]. 1887-[ca. 1931]

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Papers of Miles Franklin, 1887-[ca. 1931]. 1887-[ca. 1931]

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1. Six exercise books containing a handwritten draft of the novel "Old Blastus of Bandicoot". 2. Typewritten draft of "Old Blastus of Bandicoot: a play in three acts". 3. Photocopies of press cuttings concerning early settlers of the Monaro District. Also includes photographs, Brindabella Visitors' Book, 1887; publications (2 boxes) including mostly works by and about Miles Franklin, some are autograph copies and some contain newsclippings and correspondence.

48 cm. (3 boxes)

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Brindabella Homestead (N.S.W.)

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Franklin, Miles, 1879-1954

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Miles Franklin was born in 1879, a fifth-generation Australian, and grew up on grazing properties run by her family in the Monaro region of New South Wales. At nineteen, she wrote 'My Brilliant Career', an important study of the opportunities and expectations faced by young Australian women in the 1890s. She left Australia in 1906, travelling first to America and then to England. During the 1920s in England, she wrote pseudonymously a series of six well-received novels. In 1932 Franklin returned...