Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin under 1940-talet.

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, född den 14 oktober 1879 i Talbingo i New South Wales, död 19 september 1954 i Drummoyne i New South Wales, var en australisk författare och feminist, främst känd för romanen My Brilliant Career, publicerad 1901.

Franklin är också upphovsperson till det australiska litteraturpriset Miles Franklin Award.

Utmärkelser

• 1936: S. H. Prior Memorial Prize av The Bulletin för All that Swagger
• 1939: S. H. Prior Memorial Prize för Joseph Furphy: The Legend of a Man and His Book

Biografi (utvalda delar)

Romaner

• My Brilliant Career (1901) (filmad som Min lysande karriär, 1979)
• Some Everyday Folk and Dawn (1909)
• Old Blastus of Bandicoot (1931)
• Bring the Monkey (1933)
• All That Swagger (1936)
• Pioneers on Parade (1939) - med Dymphna Cusack
• My Career Goes Bung (1946)
• On Dearborn Street (1981)

Under pseodonymen "Brent of Bin Bin"

• Up the Country (1928)
• Ten Creeks Run (1930)
• Back to Bool Bool (1931)
• Prelude to Waking (1950)
• Cockatoos (1955)
• Gentleman at Gyang Gyang (1956)

Icke fiktion

• Joseph Furphy: The Legend of a Man and His Book (1944)
• Laughter, Not for a Cage (1956)
• Childhood at Brindabella (1963)

Vidare läsning

• Barnard, Marjorie (1967) Miles Franklin: The Story of a Famous Australian
• Brunton, Paul (ed) (2004) The diaries of Miles Franklin, Allen and Unwin
• Coleman, Verna (1981) "Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career: Miles Franklin in America" Angus and Robertson
• Martin, Sylvia (2001) Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton, Miles Franklin, Only Women Press
• North, Marilla (ed) (2001) Yarn Spinners: A Story in Letters - Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, University of Queensland Press
• Roe, Jill (ed) (1993) Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters, Vol. 1 & 2, Angus and Robertson

Referenser

• Australian Women Biographical Entry Franklin, Stella Maria ( Marian) Sarah Miles (1879 - 1954) Accessed: 2007-09-01
• Dever, Maryanne (2001?) The Complexities of Female Friendship: Review of "Yarn Spinners' and "Passionate Friends" Accessed: 2007-09-01
• Miles Franklin: Her Brilliant Yet Troubled Life Revealed (Media Release for State Library of New South Wales exhibition, Miles Franklin: A brilliant career?), 26 February 2004 Accessed: 2007-09-01
• Roe, J. I. (1981) "Franklin, Stella Maria Sarah Miles (1879 - 1954)" in Australian Dictionary of Biography online Accessed: 2007-09-01
• Roe, Jill (2004) "The diaries of Miles Franklin" in theage.com.au, 13 March 2004 Accessed: 2007-09-01
• Spender, Dale (1988) Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers, London: Pandora
• State Library of New South Wales Australian Feminist Manuscripts: Miles Franklin (1879-1954) Accessed: 2007-09-01

Externa länkar

• Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Miles Franklin.
  Bilder & media
• Works by Miles Franklin på Project Gutenberg Australia
• Great Rural Speeches: Miles Franklin
• Miles Franklin: A Brilliant Career? : State Library of New South Wales exhibition guide
• [1] Interview with biographer Jill Roe, author of Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography, with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 20/11/08.
• MP3 audiobook of My Brilliant Career från LibriVox