by Jill Roe
Of one thing we may be sure. As long as personal freedom and national identity are valued in this world, the life of Miles Franklin will command attention and affection. In 1955, her cousin Leslie Bridle recalled her as ‘the most colourful personality we had ever met . . . for us, she can never die’.21
Appendix 1
PRINCIPAL PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF MILES FRANKLIN
My Brilliant Career, Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1901
‘A Ministering Angel, Being the Real Experiences of an Australian Bush Girl’, New Idea, July–December 1905
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn, Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1909
The Net of Circumstance (under pseudonym Mr and Mrs Ogniblat L’Artsau), Mills & Boon, London, 1915
Up the Country: A Tale of the Early Australian Squattocracy (under pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin), Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1928
Ten Creeks Run: A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Upper Murrumbidgee (under pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin), Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1930
Old Blastus of Bandicoot: Opuscule on a Pioneer Tufted with Ragged Rhymes, Cecil Palmer, London, 1931
Back to Bool Bool: A Ramiparous Novel with Several Prominent Characters and a Hantle of Others Disposed as the Atolls of Oceania’s Archipelagoes (under pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin), Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1931
Bring the Monkey: A Light Novel, Endeavour Press, Sydney, 1933
All that Swagger, Bulletin, Sydney, 1936
‘No Family’, in W. Moore & T. I. Moore (eds), Best Australian One-Act Plays, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1937
Pioneers on Parade (with Dymphna Cusack), Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1939
Joseph Furphy: The Legend of a Man and his Book (with Kate Baker), Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1944
My Career Goes Bung: Purporting to be the Autobiography of Sybylla Penelope Melvyn, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1946
‘The Thorny Rose’, Newcastle Morning Herald, 12 July–28 August 1947
Sydney Royal: Divertissement, Shakespeare Head, Sydney, 1947
Prelude to Waking: A Novel in the First Person and Parentheses (under pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin), Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1950
Cockatoos: A Story of Youth and Exodists (under pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin), Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1954
Gentlemen at Gyang Gyang: A Tale of the Jumbuck Pads on the Summer Runs (under pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin), Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1956
Laughter, Not for a Cage: Notes on Australian Writing, with Biographical Emphasis on the Struggles, Function, and Achievements of the Novel in Three Half-centuries, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1956.
Childhood at Brindabella: My First Ten Years, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1963
On Dearborn Street, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1981
‘Call Up Your Ghosts’ (1945) (with Dymphna Cusack), in Dale Spender (ed.), The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women’s Writing, Penguin, Melbourne, 1988
My Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters, 1789–1954 (2 vols), Jill Roe (ed.), Angus & Robertson/HarperCollinsPublishers in association with the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993
A Gregarious Culture: Topical Writings of Miles Franklin, collected and introduced with annotations by Jill Roe and Margaret Bettison, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001
The Diaries of Miles Franklin, Paul Brunton (ed.), Allen & Unwin in association with the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004
Appendix 2
COMMEMORATIVE AWARDS AND THEIR WINNERS
Miles Franklin Literary Award
First awarded in 1957, the Miles Franklin Literary Award is given annually to ‘a novel which is of the highest literary merit and which must present Australian Life in any of its phases’. It is funded from the estate of Stella Maria Sarah ‘Miles’ Franklin. From 1987, a list of shortlisted titles was also released by the judging panel. A longlist has only been released since 2005.
Year Winning Author(s) Winning Work(s)
1957 Patrick White Voss
1958 Randolph Stow To the Islands
1959 Vance Palmer The Big Fellow
1960 Elizabeth O’Conner The Irishman
1961 Patrick White Riders in the Chariot
1962 Thea Astley
George Turner The Well Dressed Explorer
The Cupboard Under the Stairs
1963 Sumner Locke Elliott Careful, He Might Hear You
1964 George Johnston My Brother Jack
1965 Thea Astley The Slow Natives
1966 Peter Mathers Trap
1967 Thomas Keneally Bring Larks and Heroes
1968 Thomas Keneally Three Cheers for the Paraclete
1969 George Johnston Clean Straw for Nothing
1970 Dal Stivens A Horse of Air
1971 David Ireland The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
1972 Thea Astley The Acolyte
1973 No award given.
1974 Ronald McKie The Mango Tree
1975 Xavier Herbert Poor Fellow My Country
1976 David Ireland The Glass Canoe
1977 Ruth Park Swords and Crowns and Rings
1978 Jessica Anderson Tirra Lirra by the River
1979 David Ireland A Woman of the Future
1980 Jessica Anderson The Impersonators
1981 Peter Carey Bliss
1982 Rodney Hall Just Relations
1983 No award given.
1984 Tim Winton Shallows
1985 Christopher Koch The Doubleman
1986 Elizabeth Jolley The Well
1987 Glenda Adams Dancing on Coral
1988 No award given.
1989 Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda
1990 Tom Flood Oceana Fine
1991 David Malouf The Great World
1992 Tim Winton Cloudstreet
1993 Alex Miller The Ancestor Game
1994 Rodney Hall The Grisly Wife
1995 Helen Demidenko The Hand That Signed the Paper
1996 Christopher Koch Highways to a War
1997 David Foster The Glade Within the Grove
1998 Peter Carey Jack Maggs
1999 Murray Bail Eucalyptus
2000 Thea Astley Kim Scott Drylands Benang
2001 Frank Moorhouse Dark Palace
2002 Tim Winton Dirt Music
2003 Alex Miller Journey to the Stone Country
2004 Shirley Hazzard The Great Fire
2005 Andrew McGahan The White Earth
2006 Roger McDonald The Ballad of Desmond Kale
2007 Alexis Wright Carpentaria
2008 Steven Carroll The Time We Have Taken
2009 Tim Winton Breath
2010 Peter Temple Truth
2011 Kim Scott That Deadman Dance
2012 Anna Funder All That I Am
2013 Michelle de Kretser Questions of Travel
2014 Evie Wyld All the Birds, Singing
2015 Sofie Laguna The Eye of the Sheep
2016 A. S. Patrić Black Rock White City
2017 Josephine Wilson Extinctions
Stella Prize
First awarded in 2013, the Stella Prize is given annually to a work of fiction or non-fiction by an Australian woman. It seeks to increase the readership and authorial contributions of Australian women, and equip young readers with the skills to question gender stereotypes and disparities.
Year Winning Author(s) Winning Work(s)
2013 Carrie Tiffany Mateship with Birds
2014 Clare Wright The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
2015 Emily Bitto The Strays
2016 Charlotte Wood The Natural Way of Things
2017 Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love
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Newspapers and Magazines
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Nepean Times
Southerly
Sydney Morning Herald
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Allen, Judith A., Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994
Arrow, Michelle, Upstaged: Australian Women Dramatists in the Limelight at Last, Currency Press, Sydney, 2002
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Australian Literary Studies, vol. 20, no. 4, 2002, ‘Focus on Miles Franklin’, Special Section
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Barnard, Marjorie, Miles Franklin, Hill of Content, Melbourne, 1967
Barnes, John, The Order of Things: A Life of Joseph Furphy, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1990
Bettison, Margaret and Jill Roe, ‘Miles Franklin’s Topical Writings’, Australian Literary Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2001
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Coleman, Verna, Miles Franklin in America: Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1981
Cook, Hera, The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800–1975, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004
De Berg, Hazel, interview with Leslie and Ruby Bridle, 1977, NLA Oral History Collection, transcript 1001
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Dreier, Mary E., Margaret Dreier Robins: Her Life, Letters and Work, Island Press, New York, 1950
Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life, Basic Books, New York, 2002
Ferrier, Carole (ed.), As Good as a Yarn with You: Letters between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw and Eleanor Dark, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, Oakleigh, Vic, 1992
Fox, Len (ed.), Dream at a Graveside: The History of the Fellowship of Australian Writers 1928–1988, Fellowship of Australian Writers, Sydney, 1988
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Goldstein, Vida, To America & Back: 1902, ed. Jill Roe, Australian History Museum, Macquarie University, 2002
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Jacoby, Robin Miller, The British and American Women’s Trade Union Leagues: A Case Study of Feminism and Class, Carlson Publications, Brooklyn, New York, 1994
Jalland, Patricia, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business, University of NSW Press, Kensington, NSW, 2006
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——, A History of New South Wales, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006
Kirkby, Diane, Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice. The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and Oakleigh, Vic, 1991
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