Love across racial boundaries: the true history behind Netflix’s My Brilliant Career

Netflix Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of Miles Franklin’s classic 1901 Australian novel, My Brilliant Career. Chung plays Harry Beecham, the handsome and wealthy suitor of the novel’s protagonist and narrator, Sybylla Melvyn. Teenage Sybylla – who Franklin modelled on herself – is the headstrong daughter of a once-prosperous British Australian farming family who have fallen on hard times. In a dramatic change from the…