Miles Franklin’s other brilliant career – her year as an undercover servant
- Written by Kerrie Davies, Senior Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney
In the Miles Franklin archive in the State Library of New South Wales there are two brown, cloth-bound volumes, titled, “When I was Mary-Anne, A Slavey”. The thick, handwritten pages are amended with glued paper inserts copied from the missing diary the author of My Brilliant Career kept for roughly a year between April 1903 and April...





