Sybylla with her touching charm her impetuosity her inappropriateness ranks with the great romantic figures of the nineteenth century The London TimesIn this sequel to Miles Franklins famous novel My Brilliant Career once again we encounter the enchanting Sybylla Melvyn Shes a little older now catapulted from bush obscurity into sudden fame with the publication of her autobiography Sybylla goes to fashionable Sydney to further her career in the literary world but her patrons her critics and her innumerable suitors meet more than they bargained for in the wilful SybyllaMy Career Goes Bung was written in 1900 but was not published until 1946 considered too audacious and perhaps too revealing of its creators own persona for publication