‘My Brilliant Career’: Everything to Know About Netflix Remake of Australian Classic

Miles Franklin’s beloved novel My Brilliant Career is returning to the screen this August, this time as a series adaptation on Netflix. Published in 1901 and set in 1900 Australia, My Brilliant Career is one of the defining pieces of Australian literature from the 20th century, and it’s already been adapted as a film in the 1970s starring Judy Davis and the late Sam Neill. Now, The Newsreader‘s Philippa Northeast takes on the lead role of Sybylla Melvyn in this feminist coming-of-age story.