My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin is Australia’s progressive literary star.

A feminist and staunch supporter of women in the arts, her novel MY BRILLIANT CAREER (1901) was written when she was a teenager, but it remains a testament to the electric energy of a teen girl of ambition who thinks she’s just too smart and too ugly for this world. We’ve all been there.

Follow wild-haired Sybylla as she picks up her pen to try and write her way out of oppressive poverty in rural Australia, her father’s drinking debts, and obscene marriage proposals that simply cramp her style.

In conversation with

Kerrie Davies is the author of Miles Franklin Undercover, released March 2025 (Allen & Unwin), available in the U.S. November 2025. Her previous book, A Wife's Heart, created national discussion about the poet Henry Lawson & his marriage. She has appeared at the Sydney Writers' Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival & the National Folk Festival. A former journalist, Kerrie was a visiting fellow at the State Library NSW and is Senior Lecturer at the School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney. Kerrie writes for the Conversation, and lives on the NSW North Coast and Sydney.

Tina Kover is a literary translator. She studied French at the University of Denver and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and attended the Next Level Language Institute in Prague, Czech Republic. She holds a Master's Degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Durham University. She is the translator of the forthcoming novel The Very Secretive and Passionate Stella Miles Franklin.