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Miles Franklin
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Australian writer and feminist (1879–1954)
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It sits within the topics 1879 births, 1954 deaths and 19th-century Australian women writers.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 14 October 1879
- Died
- 19 September 1954
- Works
- 56
Top works
- Back to Bool Bool
- All That Swagger
- My Brilliant Career Annotated
- Feminist Literary Classics - Volume II
- LAUGHTER, NOT FOR A CAGE - Notes on Australian Writing, with Biographical Emphasis on the Struggles, Functions, and Achievements of the Novel in Three Half-Centuries
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1942-03-25
- Active to
- 2018-08-16
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 185
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Miles+Franklin">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 13,412x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,147x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,740x
- Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome
· 2005 · cited 9,360x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,910x
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Quotes
- “I make no apologies for being egotistical.”
- “We (999 out of every 1000) can see nought in sunsets save as signs and tokens whether we may expect rain on the morrow or the contrary, so we will leave such vain and foolish imagining to those poets and painters- poor fools!”
- “Hope, sweet, cruel, delusive Hope, whispered in my ear that life was long with much by and by, and in that by and by my dream-life would be real. So on I went with that gleaming lake in the distance beckoning me to come and sail on its silver waters, and Inexperience, conceited, blind Inexperience, failing to show the impassable pit between it and me.”
- “Summer is fiendish, and life is a curse, I said in my heart. What a great dull hard rock the world was! On it were a few barren narrow ledges, and on these, by exerting ourselves so that the force wears off our finger-nails, it allows us to hang for a year or two, and then hurls us off into outer darkness and oblivion, perhaps to endure worse torture than this.”
- “Provided a woman is beautiful allowance will be made for all her shortcomings. She can be unchaste, vapid, untruthful, flippant, heartless, and even clever; so long as she is fair to see men will stand by her, and as men, in this world, are "the dog on top", they are the power to truckle to. A plain woman will have nothing forgiven her. Her fate is such that the parents of uncomely female infants should be compelled to put them to death at their birth.”
- “Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! Nothing to live for in life--no hope beyond the grave.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin , ( 1879-10-14 ) 14 October 1879, Talbingo, New South Wales , Australia
- Died
- 19 September 1954 (1954-09-19) (aged 74), Drummoyne, New South Wales , Australia
- Other names
- Brent of Bin Bin, An Old Bachelor, Vernacular, Ogniblat, Mr and Mrs Ogniblat L'Artsau
- Known for
- Novelist, writer, feminist
- Website
- http://www.milesfranklin.com.au/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- Miles Franklin
- date of birth
- 1879-10-14
- date of death
- 1954-09-19
- birth name
- Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin
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- Miles Franklin
- pseudonym
- Brent of Bin Bin
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Encyclopedic overview
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.
She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major annual prize for literature about "Australian Life in any of its phases", the Miles Franklin Award. Her impact was further recognised in 2013 with the creation of the Stella Prize, awarded annually for the best work of literature by an Australian woman.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miles Franklin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.