![]() Sybilla, determined to become a writer, once again refuses him and vows never to marry. Beacham tracks her down and reiterates his proposal. Despondent, she has a breakdown and returns to her parents’ home. Sybilla is then farmed out to be a domestic servant for a family to whom her father owes money. Convinced that she’s ugly and useless, Sybilla is surprised when the wealthy young man proposes marriage. When her parents fall on hard times, they send her to live with her grandmother in another part of the country. It’s the story of tomboyish Sybylla Melvyn, a high-strung, imaginative girl from the Australian countryside. ![]() She wrote this novel while still in her teens, and it was published in her twenty-first year. Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879 – 1954) went on to become one of the most prominent Australian authors of her era. My Brilliant Career (1901) was Miles Franklin‘s first novel. ![]()
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