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Miles Franklin

Died in 1954

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born on 14 October 1879 in Talbingo, in New South Wales. She spent her early years on the family station at Brindabella, then on a small farm near Goulburn. In 1906 she left for Chicago, where she was secretary of the National Women's Trade Union League; during the Great War she served as a cook in the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Macedonia, until malaria took her away from it. She also published novels under the name Brent of Bin Bin, returned to Australia in 1932 and died on 19 September 1954 near Sydney.

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