Author

Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin (1879–1954) was born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin on a grazing property near Tumut in New South Wales. She spent the early part of her life at Brindabella, the family home station in the Monaro region of NSW. After the publication of My Brilliant Career in 1901, Franklin trained as a nurse and worked as a housemaid in both Sydney and Melbourne. She also wrote as a freelance journalist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald. Miles Franklin moved to the United States in 1906 where she worked for the National Women's Trade Union League, left for England in 1915 and between 1917 and 1918 worked as a nurse in Ostrovo during the Serbian campaigns. She returned to Sydney in 1932 where she remained until her death at the age of 75.