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Encyclopedia > My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel by Miles Franklin. It is believed to be an autobiographical story from an author about whom little else is known.


The heroine, Sybylla, a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man (Harry) whom she loves, but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, preferring to take a job as a governess/housekeeper.


In the 1979 film adaptation, Sybylla was played by Judy Davis and Harry by Sam Neill. The film was directed by Gillian Armstrong and produced by Margaret Fink. It won numerous awards and was nominated for an Academy Award for Costume Design.


External links

  • Free eBook of My Brilliant Career (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11620) at Project Gutenberg

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My Brilliant Career (1979) was a coming of age story based on the Miles Franklin's book of the same title (Armstrong cited in Wright, 1986:92).
My Brilliant Career could be considered a "Quality" film due to its beautiful and realistic reproduction of the physical aspects of the 1890's (McFarlane, 1987:171).
My Brilliant Career appears to be a dominant and significant film in the history of Australian Cinema hence one will find a reference to it in nearly any published work on cultural or media studie in Australia.
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