Special Achievements

• Wrote under the name of Miles FRANKLIN; author of "My Brilliant Career" (1901).
• 1948 - Established Miles Franklin Award for Australian Literature, which she provided for in her will.

Additional Information

• A Nationalist and Feminist, who joined the  Trade Union movement in the United States in 1906.
• 1917-18 - She nursed at Ostrovo [Ostrovo, Kostolac, Požarevac, Serbia] during the Serbian campaigns.
• Published at least 13 works, with two posthumously.

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The Australian Women's Register

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

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The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

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Wikimedia Commons: Miles Franklin

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Wikipedia

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The Dictionary of Sydney

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References

Munro, Craig.  (date unknown).  For the Woman from Snowy River.  THIS AUSTRALIA, 10-11.