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Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

Miles Franklin (1879–1954)

Novel · first published 1909 · Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood

A comic novel of a country town during the first federal election in which women could vote.

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About 96,496 words · roughly 6.8 hours of reading (medium) · 19 sections online · In: Early women writers

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Miles Franklin (author) died in 1954. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 2004. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1909. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
  2. MILES FRANKLIN
  3. First published in Great Britain by William Blackwood & Sons 1909
  4. TO THE
  5. ENGLISH MEN WHO BELIEVE IN VOTES FOR WOMEN
  6. THIS STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED , BECAUSE THE WOMEN HEREIN CHARACTERISED WERE NEVER FORCED TO BE
  7. " SUFFRAGETTES ,"
  8. THEIR COUNTRYMEN HAVING GRANTED THEM THEIR RIGHTS AS
  9. SUFFRAGISTS
  10. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1902.
  11. CONTENTS
  12. GLOSSARY OF COLLOQUIALISMS AND SLANG TERMS.
  13. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn.
  14. ONE.
  15. CLAY'S.
  16. TWO.
  17. AT CLAY'S.
  18. THREE.
  19. BECOMING ACQUAINTED WITH GRANDMA CLAY.
  20. FOUR.
  21. DAWN'S AMBITION.
  22. FIVE.
  23. MISS FLIPP'S UNCLE.
  24. SIX.
  25. GRANDMA CLAY'S LOVE-STORY.
  26. SEVEN.
  27. THE LITTLE TOWN OF NOONOON.
  28. EIGHT.
  29. GRANDMA TURNS NURSE.
  30. NINE.
  31. THE KNIGHT HAS A STOLEN VIEW OF THE LADY.
  32. TEN.
  33. PROVINCIAL POLITICS AND SEMI-SUBURBAN DENTISTS.
  34. ELEVEN.
  35. ANDREW DISGRACES HIS "RARIN'."
  36. TWELVE.
  37. SOME SIDE-PLAY.
  38. THIRTEEN.
  39. VARIOUS EVENTS.
  40. FOURTEEN.
  41. THE PASSING OF THE TRAINS.
  42. FIFTEEN.
  43. ALAS! MISS FLIPP!
  44. SIXTEEN.
  45. ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA!
  46. SEVENTEEN.
  47. MRS BRAY AND CARRY COME TO ISSUES.
  48. EIGHTEEN.
  49. THE FOUNDATION OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.
  50. NINETEEN.
  51. AN OPPORTUNELY INOPPORTUNE DOUCHE.
  52. TWENTY.
  53. "ALAS! HOW EASILY THINGS GO WRONG!"
  54. TWENTY-ONE.
  55. THINGS GO MORE WRONG.
  56. TWENTY-TWO.
  57. TWENTY-THREE.
  58. UNIVERSAL ADULT SUFFRAGE.
  59. I.
  60. II.
  61. III.
  62. TWENTY-FOUR.
  63. LITTLE ODDS AND ENDS OF LIFE.
  64. TWENTY-FIVE.
  65. "LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM."
  66. TWENTY-SIX.
  67. "OFF WITH THE OLD."
  68. TWENTY-SEVEN.
  69. TWENTY-EIGHT.
  70. LET THERE BE LOVE.
  71. TWENTY-NINE.
  72. THIRTY.
  73. FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS CONSULT 'THE NOONOON ADVERTISER' OF THAT DATE.
  74. L'ENVOI.
  75. THE END.

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