<DIV><B>The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic</B><br><BR> Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary <I>My Brilliant Career</I> when she was only sixteen, intending it to be the Australian answer to <I>Jane Eyre</I>. But the book she produced-a thinly veiled autobiographical novel about a young girl hungering for life and love in the outback-so scandalized her country upon its appearance in 1901 that she insisted it not be published again until ten years after her death.<BR><BR></DIV>