Stella miles franklin biography jill roeder

Beyond the name of the Australian book prize, I knew nothing about Miles Franklin aside from her first book, which I hadn’t read, and indeed I thought the prize was named after more than one person!

I picked up a free copy of the e book some years ago and it has been a long read since I started it, interrupted in part by reading My Brilliant Career, Franklin’s debut book, along the way – it made little sense to read the biography without reading one of her novels.

Despite a long-term passion for writing, it was involvement in politics that surprisingly (for me) was the practical focus for Franklin in her 20s and 30s.

The autobiography|Benjamin Franklin.

Moving to Chicago and later, London, she was a loyal servant of the suffrage movements there, the women’s vote coming much later overseas than in Australia. I was struck by her willingness to work long hours for minimal pay and a modest lifestyle.

Passion for the cause and solidarity with her sisters goes some way to explain