Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin, whose full name was Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879 to 1954), was an Australian writer and feminist. She is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. Although she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, did not appear until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature and pursued that aim by supporting writers, literary journals and writers' organisations. Her endowment of the Miles Franklin Award, an annual prize for literature about Australian life in any of its phases, gave her a lasting impact on Australian literary life, and the Stella Prize for the best work by an Australian woman was created in 2013 in recognition of that impact.