My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin [Classics](1901)

By moon-kind37

“My Brilliant Career” follows Sybylla, this stubborn young girl in Australia in the early 1900s, and it kind of feels like her whole thing is refusing to just settle down. She turns down a rich guy who wants to marry her because she wants to stay independent, but then she ends up working as a governess for a family her dad owes money to, which is… not exactly the easy way out. It also comes off as one of those early romance novels from a pretty well-known Australian writer, and I’m not totally sure how much I’m into it yet, but I can’t deny it has its pull.