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GETTING UP TO STEED

IN THE YEARS before her death in 1954, the Australian writer Miles Franklin — most famous for her sizzling debut novel — wrote a slender childhood memoir. By then in her 70s, she recalled, “The rhythm of horses came to me earlier than walking. In those moments …

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