Born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin in Australia at Talbingo, near Canberra, New South Wales, on Octodied at home of a heart attack in Carlton, near Sydney, on Septemeldest child of John Maurice Franklin (a grazier and farmer) and Susannah Margaret Lampe Franklin (a cultivated woman who raised seven children and worked hard throughout her life) educated at home by her mother and a private tutor until age ten, after which she completed her formal studies at age fourteen in a oneteacher school never married no children.ĭreams of a musical career were dashed when an extended drought ruined the family's fortunes (1889) worked long and toil-laden hours helping her parents run a small dairy farm (1889–99) completed her first and best-known novel, My Brilliant Career (1899) moved to Sydney and Melbourne, where she continued writing and became interested in social and economic reform movements (1901) left Australia for U.S. Name variations: (pseudonym) Brent of Bin-Bin. One of Australia's most authentic voices, whose first novel, the semi-autobiographical My Brilliant Career (1901), and later works of fiction and nonfiction brought her enduring fame in the English-speaking world.
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