My brilliant career by miles franklin5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() These are two modes of writing which were firmly 'gendered' in literary debate at the time of the novel's composition, hence Lawson's distinction between the 'painfully real' and the 'girlishly emotional parts of the book' (xxv). This gender trouble manifests itself in the question of the genre of Sybylla's narrative- My Brilliant Career is a challenging mixture of realism and romance. The 'trouble' with Sybylla is that she refuses to endorse any stable and unified model of identity, most crucially, with regard to her gender Lawson's 'sex-problem'. ![]() William Blackwood, editor, felt impelled to 'tone down' her narrative, and 'religious, political and sex-problem passages' made Henry Lawson 'blush'. ![]() Sybylla Melvyn, narrator of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career (1901), has troubled readers from the start. ![]()
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