Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major literary award known as the Miles Franklin Award. Her family was a member of the squattocracy. In March 1917 Franklin volunteered for war work in the Ostrovo Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals during the Serbian campaigns of 1917–18.

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin known as Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career publiMiles Franklind in 1901. While Miles Franklin wrote throughout her life her other major literary success All That Swagger was not publiMiles Franklind until 1936.