The book does reflect the growing influence of the women’s movement in Australia and the changing values and expectations of young Australian women at the turn of the 20th century. While not opposed to the idea of love, that is not where Sybylla sets her hopes for happiness. Sybylla Melvyn is an artistic and independent young woman who experiences a series of downturns in her family’s circumstances and finds herself at the wrong end of the same social expectations and judgements to which she had always been resistant. Franklin sent her manuscript to Henry Lawson, who liked it so much that he wrote a foreword and submitted it to his own publishers.Īlthough presented as a romantic story, It’s actually something of an anti-Romance. ‘My Brilliant Career’ was the first Australian novel to be published. Many readers outside of Australia may not have heard of either this wonderful book or its author, but I would heartily recommend them to read it.
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