{"product_id":"miles-franklin-undercover-the-little-known-years-when-she-created-her-own-brilliant-career","title":"Miles Franklin Undercover: The little-known years when she created her own brilliant career","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the success and celebrity of her coming of age novel  My Brilliant Career , published when Miles Franklin was only 21, she disappeared. This is the story of the decade that made her second career as a fearless advocate for working women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'There is a theory that any woman can be rescued from the shoals of failure and despair by finding some man to ask her in marriage, but before I could be happy in love I should at least need to realize myself.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe dazzled Australia with her rebellious novel  My Brilliant Career , inspiring generations of young women chafing under conventional expectations. Only 21, Miles Franklin, was lauded as the Bronte of the bush, and feted by the rich and influential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut fame can be deceptive. In reality, the book earned her a pittance. The family farm was sold, her new novels were rejected, and she was broke. Just two years after her debut, Miles disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this real-life sequel to  My Brilliant Career , author Kerrie Davies uncovers a little-known period in Miles' life, from the servant's quarters of Sydney and Melbourne's wealthy houses to volatile Chicago, in the turbulent years after her early success. Davies draws on a never-before published manuscript and diary extracts of Miles' year undercover as a servant, intimate correspondence with poet Banjo Paterson, and archival sources from Australia and Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMiles Undercover  is a powerful story of a young woman's enduring resilience, and her determination to always be her own heroine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Captures a wonderful sense of Miles as a person. A fascinating page turner.' -  Gillian Armstrong, director of the movie  My Brilliant Career\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A captivating read - Miles comes alive' -  Brigitta Olubas, author of  Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67754003792240,"sku":"A8700","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/815eFIdjjDL._SX1500.jpg?v=1792673764","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/miles-franklin-undercover-the-little-known-years-when-she-created-her-own-brilliant-career","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}