My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin (1879 - 1954)

Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life, but have all they can do to get their work done without indulging in such a luxury". Like the author Miles Franklin, Sybella grows up in the bush, and as her family's fortunes decline, so her feelings rise that life should hold more for her than the relentless hard physical work farming marginal land in times of drought. (Summary by Annise)

Genre(s): Published 1900 onward

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface and Introduction Annise
00:05:19
Play 01 I Remember, I Remember Magdalena
00:07:51
Play 02 An Introduction to Possum Gully Bellona Times
00:06:55
Play 03 A Lifeless Life Lee Ann Howlett
00:10:02
Play 04 A Career which soon Careered to an End Lee Ann Howlett
00:09:41
Play 05 Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles Ray Smith
00:15:52
Play 06 Revolt Elizabeth Klett
00:14:58
Play 07 Was e’er A Rose without its Thorn? Elizabeth Klett
00:19:50
Play 08 Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah! Elizabeth Klett
00:19:04
Play 09 Aunt Helen’s Recipe skellie
00:14:44
Play 10 Everard Grey skellie
00:17:04
Play 11 Yah! Annise
00:17:41
Play 12 One Grand Passion Lee Ann Howlett
00:13:13
Play 13 He Lee Ann Howlett
00:19:20
Play 14 Principally Letters Lee Ann Howlett
00:13:50
Play 15 When the Heart is Young Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:13:07
Play 16 When Fortune Smiles Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:20:24
Play 17 Idylls of Youth Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:27:36
Play 18 As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give Ear Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:06:53
Play 19 The 9th of November 1896 Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:20:21
Play 20 Same Yarn (Cont.) Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:22:23
Play 21 My Unladylike Behaviour Again Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:12:35
Play 22 Sweet Seventeen Elizabeth Klett
00:17:40
Play 23 Ah, for one Hour of Burning Love, ’tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect! Elizabeth Klett
00:16:13
Play 24 Thou Knowest not What a Day May Bring Forth Linda McDaniel
00:08:49
Play 25 Because? Linda McDaniel
00:09:40
Play 26 Boast not Thyself of Tomorrow Bellona Times
00:20:11
Play 27 My Journey Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
00:07:58
Play 28 To Life Magdalena
00:15:45
Play 29 To Life (Cont.) Magdalena
00:25:56
Play 30 Where Ignorance is Bliss, ’tis Folly to be Wise Ted Nugent
00:13:48
Play 31 Mr M’Swat and I have a Bust-up Elizabeth Klett
00:14:59
Play 32 Ta-ta to Barney’s Gap Magdalena
00:06:17
Play 33 Back at Possum Gully Jacquerie
00:10:17
Play 34 But Absent Friends are Soon Forgot Jacquerie
00:14:55
Play 35 The 3rd. of December 1898 Jacquerie
00:11:02
Play 36 Once Upon a Time, when the Days were Long and Hot Jesse Crawford
00:17:39
Play 37 He that Despises Little Things shall Fall Little by Little Magdalena
00:08:09
Play 38 A Tale that is Told, and a Day that is Done Magdalena
00:05:24