My Brilliant Career [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"Although she has grown up in genteel poverty, Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) has managed to retain a distinctive point of view about life and her place in it. Set in late 19th-century Australia, this story chronicles Sybylla's development from gawky girlhood to assured womanhood and her quest to retain her independence in a male-dominated world. Possessed of literary ambitions, she is encouraged by her wealthy grandmother, with whom she comes to live. Harry Beecham (Sam Neill), a kind and att...