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A Life Enhancer

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May 2004, no. 261

The Diaries of Miles Franklin edited by Paul Brunton

Allen & Unwin, $39.95 hb, 304 pp

A Life Enhancer

by
May 2004, no. 261

The publication of Miles Franklin’s diaries, written during her years in Australia from 1932 until her death in 1954, must be one of the year’s major literary events. events. Franklin, who frequently lamented her relative neglect in the contemporary literary culture of the 1930s and 1940s, has become steadily more and more visible since the 1970s, when international feminism discovered My Brilliant Career (1901). Meanwhile, much of her continuing significance is due secondarily to the extensive biographical research by Jill Roe and others.

The Diaries of Miles Franklin

The Diaries of Miles Franklin

edited by Paul Brunton

Allen & Unwin, $39.95 hb, 304 pp

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