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My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund (Illustrated)

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund (Illustrated)

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Presenting "My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund." These Australian coming of age classics are part of The Great Books Series by Golding Books.

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin, was born in 1879 in Talbingo, New South Wales. She is best known for her novel "My Brilliant Career," published in 1901 with the help of writer Henry Lawson. Though she wrote throughout her life, her other popular novel, "All That Swagger," was not published until 1936. In 1906, Franklin moved to Chicago and undertook secretarial work for Australian Alice Henry at the National Women’s Trade Union League, and also co-edited the league’s magazine, "Life and Labor." After volunteering as a hospital cook attached to the Serbian army near Lake Ostrovo later in World War I, from 1919 to 1926 she worked as Secretary with the National Housing and Town Planning Association in London. After the death of her father in 1931, Franklin resettled in Australia. She resolutely encouraged writers and the growth of Australian literature, and her endowment of the annual Miles Franklin Award rewards works about “Australian Life in any of its phases.” Franklin died at the age of 74.

Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, known by her pen name of Henry Handel Richardson, was born in East Melbourne, Victoria, in 1870. Her family lived in various Victorian towns, including Chiltern, Queenscliff, Koroit, and Maldon; her mother was postmistress at Maldon . Richardson went to board at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Melbourne from ages 13 to 17, excelling there in the arts and music, and some of these experiences were the basis for "The Getting of Wisdom" . In 1888, her mother took the family to Europe to enable Richardson to continue her musical studies at the Leipzig Conservatorium. While in Leipzig—where her first novel, "Maurice Guest" , is set—she met the Scot John George Robertson . In 1894 they married in Munich; his subsequent posting at University College would take them to London. Richardson returned to Australia in 1912 to research family history for her trilogy "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony" (comprising novels "Australia Felix" , "The Way Home" , and "Ultima Thule" —the latter awarded the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for 1929), but this would be her last return home. A proponent of psychic research, she and her sister Lillian were also passionate supporters of the suffragette movement. Richardson died in Hastings, England, in 1946.
Language
English
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Golding Books
Release
March 26, 2018

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund (Illustrated)

Nicholas Tamblyn
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Presenting "My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund." These Australian coming of age classics are part of The Great Books Series by Golding Books.

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin, was born in 1879 in Talbingo, New South Wales. She is best known for her novel "My Brilliant Career," published in 1901 with the help of writer Henry Lawson. Though she wrote throughout her life, her other popular novel, "All That Swagger," was not published until 1936. In 1906, Franklin moved to Chicago and undertook secretarial work for Australian Alice Henry at the National Women’s Trade Union League, and also co-edited the league’s magazine, "Life and Labor." After volunteering as a hospital cook attached to the Serbian army near Lake Ostrovo later in World War I, from 1919 to 1926 she worked as Secretary with the National Housing and Town Planning Association in London. After the death of her father in 1931, Franklin resettled in Australia. She resolutely encouraged writers and the growth of Australian literature, and her endowment of the annual Miles Franklin Award rewards works about “Australian Life in any of its phases.” Franklin died at the age of 74.

Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, known by her pen name of Henry Handel Richardson, was born in East Melbourne, Victoria, in 1870. Her family lived in various Victorian towns, including Chiltern, Queenscliff, Koroit, and Maldon; her mother was postmistress at Maldon . Richardson went to board at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Melbourne from ages 13 to 17, excelling there in the arts and music, and some of these experiences were the basis for "The Getting of Wisdom" . In 1888, her mother took the family to Europe to enable Richardson to continue her musical studies at the Leipzig Conservatorium. While in Leipzig—where her first novel, "Maurice Guest" , is set—she met the Scot John George Robertson . In 1894 they married in Munich; his subsequent posting at University College would take them to London. Richardson returned to Australia in 1912 to research family history for her trilogy "The Fortunes of Richard Mahony" (comprising novels "Australia Felix" , "The Way Home" , and "Ultima Thule" —the latter awarded the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for 1929), but this would be her last return home. A proponent of psychic research, she and her sister Lillian were also passionate supporters of the suffragette movement. Richardson died in Hastings, England, in 1946.
Language
English
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Golding Books
Release
March 26, 2018

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