Please study photos to see what you are buying. May not include supplemental items (like discs, access codes, dust jacket, etc). There may be underlining, highlighting, and or writing. Will show signs of wear to cover and/or pages. Item: 404262949236 Vintage Australian Classics My Career Goes Bung Hard Cover Book, Miles Franklin. The novel ends with no suggestion that she will ever have the 'brilliant career' as a writer that she desires.Ships to: AU, AMERICAS, EUROPE, ASIA, NZ, When Harold Beecham returns to ask Sybylla to marry him, she concludes that she would only make him unhappy and sends him away, determined never to marry.

She finds life there unbearable and eventually suffers a physical breakdown which leads to her return to the family home. There she meets wealthy young Harold Beecham, who loves her and proposes marriage convinced of her ugliness and aware of her tomboyish ways, Sybylla is unable to believe that he could really love her.īy this time, her father's drinking has plunged the family into debt, and she is sent to work as governess/housekeeper for the family of an almost illiterate neighbor to whom her father owes money.

To her relief, she is sent to live on her grandmother's property, where life is more comfortable. Drought and a series of poor business decisions reduce her family to subsistence level, her father begins to drink excessively, and Sybylla struggles to deal with the monotony of her life. The heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is an imaginative, headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia in the 1890s. Shortly after the publication of My Brilliant Career, Franklin wrote a sequel, My Career Goes Bung, which would not be published until 1946. The popularity of the novel in Australia and the perceived closeness of many of the characters to her own family and circumstances as small farmers in New South Wales near Goulburn caused Franklin a great deal of distress and led her to withdrawing the novel from publication until after her death. Franklin submitted the manuscript to Henry Lawson who contributed a preface and took it to his own publishers in Edinburgh.

It was written while she was still a teenager, as a romance to amuse her friends. It is the first of many novels by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879–1954), one of the major Australian writers of her time. My Brilliant Career is a 1901 novel written by Miles Franklin.

My career goes bung