![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miles Franklins’, My Brilliant Career, published in 1901, particularly so because it’s written by a sixteen year old girl, who understands the concerns of girls in an unashamedly chauvinistic world. Returning to those women writers who set me on the path to literature and writing has been an inspiration. But women write differently to men and though I read many books by male writers too, the ones who really reached me were the female voices. I didn’t notice these were female writers at the time that came later, and when these classics were published many females wrote under male pseudonyms, even when writing specifically about and for girls. ![]() Thinking about those influences a little harder, I realised many of those early experiences of storytelling are still informing my writing now. Beatrix Potter, author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and May Gibbs, author of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie both came to mind as I related the differences between a childhood set against an English landscape to that of an Australian childhood spent in the bush. When writing a short story about a family in Australia during the Great Depression, I recently found myself referencing, almost subconsciously, books I’d read in early childhood. ![]()
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