Trivia

Judy Davis learned the piano for her role in this film and played her own piano solos. Davis is credited for piano playing in the closing credits.

This film is considered one of the key films of the Australian New Wave cinema of the 1970s.

Miles Franklin was apparently only sixteen years of age when she wrote her novel 'My Brilliant Career.' However, Franklin was about twenty-one years of age when the novel was first published in 1901.

This film's director, producers, scriptwriter, first billed actor, production designer, costume designer, production supervisor, bookkeeper and accountant were all women.

Director Gillian Armstrong once said of this film's source novel and the film: "I thought it was a pretty amazing book, especially for its time. At that time [in the mid 1970s], I was ready to work on the film version in any capacity. I never thought I would be asked to direct."