{"product_id":"miles-franklin-undercover-the-little-known-years-when-she-created-her-own-brilliant-career","title":"Miles Franklin Undercover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe little-known years when she created her own brilliant career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\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 realise myself.'\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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 from Miles' year undercover as a servant, intimate correspondence with poet Banjo Paterson, and archival sources from Australia and Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiles Franklin Undercover is a powerful story of a young woman's enduring resilience, and her determination to always be her own heroine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kerrie Davies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46842508017833,"sku":"9781761470936","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781761470936.jpg?v=1772325040","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/miles-franklin-undercover-the-little-known-years-when-she-created-her-own-brilliant-career","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}