Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklinwas an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, self-published in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 October 1879
CountryAustralia
women class drawing
Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know it, but I cannot help you... I am only an unnecessary, little, bush commoner, I am only a - woman.
atheist heart atheism
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
autobiography
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
fleeting hours
... we each have our fleeting hour.