Caddagat

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Caddagat is the rural New South Wales sheep station and family home featured in Miles Franklin’s novel "My Brilliant Career," where protagonist Sybylla Melvyn lives for a time.

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instanceOf fictional place
literary setting
rural property
sheep station
appearsInWork My Brilliant Career NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme class differences
female independence
rural Australian life
contrastsWithSetting Sybylla Melvyn’s parents’ struggling bush farm
countryInFictional Australia NERFINISHED
createdBy Miles Franklin NERFINISHED
describedAs family home
rural New South Wales sheep station
hasEconomicActivity sheep grazing
hasFunctionInPlot symbol of pastoral comfort and privilege
temporary home for Sybylla Melvyn
hasLandscapeFeature grazing paddocks
homestead garden
hasNarrativeRole major setting in early part of My Brilliant Career
isHomeOfCharacter Sybylla Melvyn NERFINISHED
Sybylla Melvyn’s relatives
languageOfWork English
literarySignificance one of the best-known pastoral settings in Australian fiction
locatedInFictional New South Wales NERFINISHED
medium novel
narrativePerspectiveOn comfort compared to harsher bush life
ownedByInFiction Sybylla Melvyn’s extended family
partOfGenreContext Australian literature
coming-of-age fiction
settingForEvent Sybylla Melvyn’s reflections on ambition
Sybylla Melvyn’s romantic encounters
Sybylla Melvyn’s social debut
symbolizes constraints of domestic expectations
possibility of a different social position for Sybylla
timePeriodDepicted late 19th century

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Sybylla Melvyn spendsTimeAt Caddagat