Summary (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction
Series)  Like most first novels, My Brilliant Career draws
heavily on its author’s experience, and its verisimilitude was
such that contemporaries judged it as a factual rather than
fictional autobiography—an impression that a sequel, My Career
Goes Bung (1954), did not entirely dispel.  In the introduction
to the story, the author advises that the book is “all about
myself.... I make no apologies for being egotistical. In this
particular I attempt an improvement on other autobiographies.”
She then cautions, “neither is it a novel, but simply a
yarn”—one about a life of “long toil-laden days with its
agonising monotony, narrowness, and absolute uncongeniality.”
Although she says that “there is no plot in this story, because
there has been none in my life or in any other life which has
come under my notice,” this is only true insofar as a planned
series of interrelated actions and opposed forces leading to a
climax is regarded as a plot. If one consider