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Directed to Jane Addams's Hull House, she was welcomed by fellow-Australian Alice Henry, and impressed the philanthropic Margaret Dreier Robins, president of the fledgling National Women's Trade Union League of America, who in October 1907 offered her a post as personal secretary. Franklin thereafter promoted her own causes: Mary Fullerton's poetry; Lawson; reminders of Joseph Furphy (1944) in painful collaboration with Kate Baker (an earlier essay on Furphy had won them the Prior Memorial prize in 1939); protection for 'the last literary frontier'; and such promising young writers as Jean Devanny, Sumner Locke Elliott, Ian Mudie, David Martin and Ric Throssell.
Between 1928 and 1931, Blackwoods published three of a projected nine-volume pastoral saga by 'Brent of Bin Bin'. As she let one friend know: ‘I have plenty of food, a good roof and bed’. [14]
[media]Franklin suffered from poor health throughout much of her adult life and in 1954, her health declined rapidly.
Miles Franklin
Born
in Talbingo, New South Wales, AustraliaOctober 14, 1879
Died
September 19, 1954
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in 1879 in rural New South Wales.
Play-readings for troops, aid to the Soviet Union and the publication of outstanding manuscripts engaged her anxious wartime energies. She arrived to the debris of the San Francisco earthquake. Shortly before her death, she moved in with her cousin Thelma Perryman who lived in the Sydney suburb of Beecroft.[15] Her pocket diaries, held with the very impressive collection of Franklin Papers at the State Library of New South Wales, give us great insights into this complicated woman.
She was, on occasion, encouraged to move but if she was not content with suburban life, she never admitted it.
The ambiguities of publication were soon impressed on an otherwise resourceless 22-year-old female. She remained in the United States until 1915, working from 1908 for the National Women’s Trade Union League. She then became involved in the early Australian feminist movement via her friendship with Rose Scott and Vida Goldstein. Franklin condemned the exploitative Stephensen's politics as 'silly and reactionary', and his internment in 1942.
From 1919 she was employed as secretary with the influential National Housing and Town Planning Council in Bloomsbury, until wearied with male madness at the office in 1926. Her ill-documented first months in California appear to have been determined by a shipmate nurse of Seventh Day Adventist persuasion and letters of introduction to feminists from Vida Goldstein.
Reportedly set for New York, she had traversed America as far as Chicago by late 1906.
As translated into the contemporaneous My Career Goes Bung (unpublished until 1946), the self-styled 'Bushwacker' recoiled from rural notoriety and social-cum-sexual patronage in Sydney, including Banjo Paterson's sporting offer of collaboration in 1902. Franklin continued to identify very strongly as being Australian, but stayed in England, except for visits to Ireland in 1919 and 1926 and a visit to Australia in 1923–24, until 1932.[7]
[media]In November 1932, Franklin returned to Australia.
Ironically she returned a writer at an unsustainable zenith, to draining, uneventful domesticity at Carlton.