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(birth name:
Franklin, Stella Maria Sarah Miles
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(a.k.a.
Franklin, Stella
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Also writes as: Brent of Bin Bin (7 works); L'Artsau, Mr and Mrs Ogniblat (1 work); William Blake; S M S; Lampe, Stella; Vernacular; Mills, Sarah; Miles, Sarah; An Old Bachelor; The Glowworm (1 work); Field Hospital Orderly
Born: 14 Oct 1879 Talbingo, New South Wales
Died: 19 Sep 1954 Drummoyne, New South Wales
Gender: Female
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A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows:Miles Franklin was born in 1879 near Tumut, New South Wales. A fifth-generation Australian, Franklin grew up on grazing properties run by her family in the Monaro region. A decline in profits and the increasingly poorer properties taken up by the Franklin family were a major influence on the young Miles, an influence that is reflected in her fiction. At nineteen she wrote My Brilliant Career, the novel for which she is most admired. But the novel remained unpublished until 1901 when Henry Lawson....
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Last amended:
25 Sep 2008