My Brilliant Career

The Project Gutenberg eBook, My Brilliant Career, by Miles FranklinThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: My Brilliant CareerAuthor: Miles FranklinRelease Date: March 17, 2004 [eBook #11620]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY BRILLIANT CAREER***E-text prepared by an anonymous Project Gutenberg contributorMY BRILLIANT CAREERMILES FRANKLIN1901PREFACEA few months before I left Australia I got a letter from the bush signed "Miles Franklin", saying that the writer had written anovel, but knew nothing of editors and publishers, and asking me to read and advise. Something about the letter, whichwas written in a strong original hand, attracted me, so I sent for the MS., and one dull afternoon I started to read it. I hadn'tread three pages when I saw what you will no doubt see at once—that the story had been written by a girl. And as I wenton I saw that the work was Australian—born of the bush. I don't know about the girlishly emotional parts of the book—Ileave that to girl readers to judge; but the descriptions of bush life and scenery came startlingly, painfully real to me, and Iknow that, as far as they are concerned, the book is true to Australia—the truest I ever read. I wrote to Miles Franklin, andshe confessed that she ...