The apartment building she purchased is on Melbourne's Heritage Places Inventory after it was bought back by her daughters.
Franklin's very popular story of the independent Sybylla created such strong objections from her family that the author refused to allow it to reprinted for decades.
She made a living at this but the profit was dependent on her landlord not raising her rent and it was her job to keep the place clean.
[1] Her mother, Mary Hill, came to her rescue when she gave her £300 and this was enough to buy her own apartment building and to be an owner and a landlord for the first time.
[1] Eastwood died in Melbourne in 1947 and in 1959 two of her daughters bought back Cavazzi which is now numbered 19.