At the age of twenty-one, she became an international publishing sensation with MY BRILLIANT CAREER, which more than a century later is still regarded as an Australian classic. Miles Franklin’s early success gave her entree to literary and socialist circles in Sydney and Melbourne. There she met Banjo Paterson, the Goldstein sisters and Joseph Furphy, among others. In 1906, she went to work for the women's labor movement in Chicago. In 1915 she relocated to London and quickly found herself traveling to the Balkans to help nurse wounded Allied soldiers. Returning to London, she campaigned for various feminist and progressive causes, all the while continuing to write, often-submitting work under pseudonyms that she guarded fiercely all her life. In the 1930s, she returned to Australia, taking up the cause of Australian writers. Novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist, larrikin, Miles Franklin was all these and more.
