My Brilliant Career
| Preface by | Henry Lawson |
| Introduction by | Carmen Callil |
| Copyright Holder (Introduction/Prologue) | Carmen Callil |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Cover Art by | Mira Nameth |
| Printed and Bound by | Clays Ltd, St Ives plc |
| Copyright Holder (Cover/Jacket Art) | Mira Nameth |
| Imprint | Virago Press |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | LBBG, Sian Wilson |
| Copyright Holder | The Beneficiaries of the Estate of Miles Franklin |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain |
| Copyright | 1901 |
| Republished | 1965 |
| Republished | 1979 |
| Republished | 1980 |
| Copyright | 1981 |
| This Edition Published | 2012 |
| Pages / Font | 297 pages |
| ISBN | 978-1-84408-816-4 |
| Barcode | 9 781844 088164 |
| Price | U.K. £12.99 / CAN $19.99 |
| Chapters | Contents 1 I Remember, I Remember 2 An Introduction to Possum Gully 3 A Lifeless Life 4 A Career which Soon Careered to an End 5 Disjointed Sketches and Grumbles 6 Revolt 7 Was E'er a Rose Without its Thorns? 8 Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah! 9 Aunt Helen's Recipe 10 Everard Grey 11 Yah! 12 One Grand Passion 13 He 14 Principally Letters 15 When the Heart is Young 16 When Fortune Smiles 17 Idylls of Youth 18 As Short as I Wish Had Been the Majority of Sermons to which I Have Been Forced to Give Ear 19 The 9th of November 1896 20 Same Yarn (cont.) 21 My Unladylike Behaviour Again 22 Sweet Seventeen 23 Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love 'Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect! 24 Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring Forth 25 Because? 26 Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow 27 My Journey 28 To Life 29 To Life (cont.) 30 Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be Wise 31 Mr M'Swat and I have a Bust-up 32 Ta-ta to Barney's Gap 33 Back to Possum Gully 34 But Absent Friends are Soon Forgot 35 The 3rd of December 1898 36 Once Upon a Time, when the days were long and short 37 He that despiseth little things, shall fall little by little 38 A Tale that is told and a Day that is done |
| Notes | Virago First published by Virago Press in 1980 This hardback edition published in 2012 by Virago Press First published in Edinburgh in 1901 Published by Angus Robertson, Australia in 1965 Angus & Robertson Classics edition in 1979 Copyright © the Beneficiaries of the Estate of Miles Franklin 1901 Introduction copyright © Carmen Callil 1981 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc Virago Press An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group An Hachette UK Company Illustration © Mira Nameth. Art Direction: LBBG - Sian Wilson Preface: Henry Lawson, England, April 1901 |
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