![]() ![]() Sybylla Melvyn is a headstrong teenager growing up in the 1890s a fictional rural Australia that bears a remarkable resemblance to Brindabella. The 1979 film version by Gillian Armstrong starred Judy Davis and Sam Neill. It's fair to say virtually all juvenilia of established writers, and non-established ones for that matter, at least partly autobiographical, but Miles F reckoned MBC wasn't, so there. ![]() The book was published in 1901 with help from Henry Lawson, but subsequently withdrawn from sale by the author until after her death because everyone kept telling her it was autobiographical. Franklin was a child of the 'squattocracy' in the Brindabella region of NSW, and is best known for 'My Brilliant Career,' written in the 1890s when she was just 16. Since 2013, her memory has also been honoured in the form of the annual Stella Prize for best work of literature by an Australian woman. Her will established the country's most prestigious literary annual prize for "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases," which was first awarded in 1957, three years after her demise. Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, aka Miles Franklin (1879–1954). ![]()
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