Re: Miles Franklin
Camille Scaysbrook (the_globe@hotmail.com)
Sun, 25 Jul 1999 02:29:14 -0700 (PDT)
I hope you know that Miles Franklin was a girl and not a boy! For the sheer
fact that she wrote her first novel at age 16 (sadly there is a movie of it
- My Brilliant Career - which is very seldom seen today as it was sold to
foreign interests who have kept it in a dusty vault somewhere ever since -
an utter tragedy. Also the wonderful Judy Davis' first movie) and as a woman
in the early 20th century is enough to make her an admirable figure. I
highly recommend searching out her works, if even for curiosity's sake.
P.S. I've been to that Australian literature site before too, and was
shocked and delighted to find my own name there on the Australian Authors
list!
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
>Not knowing who Miles Franklin was/is, I typed in the name into a search
>engine and was directed to
>http://ncc1701.apana.org.au/~larrikin/lit/lit.html#Authors
>and was greeted by a very nice website which features Australian authors
and
>Australian poems, and which opened with the words:
>
>Books are a large part of my life. I've got them lining the walls, piled
up
>next to the bed, on tables, chairs, and on just about every flat surface,
>and I still don't know what to say to the people who come to my house and
>ask, "so, have you read them all?"
>
>--Bruce
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