A Teenage Girl in 1901 Wrote a Novel About Wanting a Career Instead of a Husband. 125 Years Later, Netflix Is Turning It into a 6-Part Series

A Teenage Girl in 1901 Wrote a Novel About Wanting a Career Instead of a Husband. 125 Years Later, Netflix Is Turning It into a 6-Part Series

The story follows Sybylla Melvyn, a headstrong young woman in turn-of-the-century rural Australia who wants a writing career and a life of her own instead of a husband. Netflix’s tagline: “Sybylla doesn’t want a husband, she wants a story worth telling, and she’ll break every rule to write it.” Philippa “Pip” Northeast plays Sybylla in the first major TV version of the 125-year-old feminist classic, arriving more than four decades after the 1979…