My Brilliant Career

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781775411314
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends. It depicts the poor, intelligent Sybylla who cannot accustom herself to her family's reduced circumstances. She is given a reprieve and sent to her Grandmother's grand house, where she mingles with the best rural society, including the handsome Harry Beecham. She is faced with the choice of material improvement through marriage, or personal improvement through working for her dreams.

Table of contents

• MY BRILLIANT CAREER
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One — I Remember, I Remember
• Chapter Two — An Introduction to Possum Gully
• Chapter Three — A Lifeless Life
• Chapter Four — A Career Which Soon Careered to an…
• Chapter Five — Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles
• Chapter Six — Revolt
• Chapter Seven — Was E'er a Rose Without Its Thorn…
• Chapter Eight — Possum Gully Left Behind Hurrah! …
• Chapter Nine — Aunt Helen's Recipe
• Chapter Ten — Everard Grey
• Chapter Eleven — Yah!
• Chapter Twelve — One Grand Passion
• Chapter Thirteen — He
• Chapter Fourteen — Principally Letters
• Chapter Fifteen — When the Heart is Young
• Chapter Sixteen — When Fortune Smiles
• Chapter Seventeen — Idylls of Youth
• Chapter Eighteen — As Short as I Wish Had Been th…
• Chapter Nineteen — The 9th of November 1896
• Chapter Twenty — Same Yarn—Continued
• Chapter Twenty-One — My Unladylike Behaviour Agai…
• Chapter Twenty-Two — Sweet Seventeen
• Chapter Twenty-Three — Ah, for One Hour of Burnin…
• Chapter Twenty-Four — Thou Knowest not What a Day…
• Chapter Twenty-Five — Because?
• Chapter Twenty-Six — Boast not Thyself of Tomorro…
• Chapter Twenty-Seven — My Journey
• Chapter Twenty-Eight — To Life
• Chapter Twenty-Nine — To Life—Continued
• Chapter Thirty — Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis F…
• Chapter Thirty-One — Mr M'swat and I Have a Bust-…
• Chapter Thirty-Two — Ta-Ta to Barney's Gap
• Chapter Thirty-Three — Back at Possum Gully
• Chapter Thirty-Four — But Absent Friends Are Soon…
• Chapter Thirty-Five — The 3rd of December 1898
• Chapter Thirty-Six — Once Upon a Time, When the D…
• Chapter Thirty-Seven — He that Despiseth Little T…
• Chapter Thirty-Eight — A Tale that is Told and a …