Stella miles franklin biography jill roehr

Beyond the name of the Australian book prize, I knew nothing about Miles Franklin aside from her first book, which I hadn’t read, and indeed I thought the prize was named after more than one person!

Rosalind Franklin (Scientists Who Made History)|Cath Senker.

Rosalind Franklin (Scientists Who Made History)|Cath Senker.

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Miles Franklin and are mentioned often in "Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin" by By Jill Roe."With a new friend, expatriate Australian.

The State Library of NSW is one of the oldest libraries in Australia, with a history tracing back to the establishment of the Australian.

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I picked up a free copy of the e book some years ago and it has been a long read since I started it, interrupted in part by reading My Brilliant Career, Franklin’s debut book, along the way – it made little sense to read the biography without reading one of her novels.

Despite a long-term passion for writing, it was involvement in politics that surprisingly (for me) was the practical focus for Franklin in her 20s and 30s. Moving to Chicago and later, London, she was a loyal servant of the suffrage movements there, the women’s vote coming much later overseas than in Australia.

I was struck by her willingness to work long hours for minimal pay and a modest lifestyle. Passion for the cause and solidarity with her sisters goes some way to exp