Abstract
M.A.
This study approaches a special area of comparative literature
in English which has not been researched in any great detail
to date. Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm, first
published in 1883, had an Australian counterpart in Miles
Franklin's My Brilliant Career, first published in 1901. Both
novels stemmed from a deep-rooted discontent with Colonial
society and, specifically, with the status of women in that
society. Both these novelists were early Colonial writers whose
works proved to be watersheds in the development of the literary
output of their respective countries. Both novelists have a
similar status in their respective literature, and their novels
show many comparable attributes ...