Some Everyday Folk and Dawn - Softcover

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879-1954) was an Australian writer and feminist, best known for her autobiographical novel, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901, which tells the story of an irrepressible teenage feminist growing to womanhood in rural New South Wales. After My Brilliant Career, she tried a career in nursing, and then as a housemaid in Sydney and Melbourne. Whilst doing this she contributed pieces to The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald. In 1906, she moved to the USA and undertook secretarial work, and co-edited the leagueâ s magazine, Life and Labor. Her years in the U. S. are reflected in On Dearborn Street (not published until 1981). Also while in America she wrote Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (1909). In 1915, she travelled to England and worked in a Scottish Womenâ s Hospital. She resettled in Australia in 1932 after the death of her father and during a decade wrote several historical novels of the Australian bush. Although most of these were published under the pseudonym â Brent of Bin Bin, â her masterpiece All That Swagger (1936) was published under her own name.