Ethel Turner

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Ethel Turner


Born
in Balby, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
January 24, 1870

Died
April 08, 1958

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Born in England in 1870, Ethel Turner came to Australia with her mother and sisters when she was 10 years old. She showed a great love of literature while at school and in her late teens launched a literary and social magazine in Sydney with her sister Lilian Turner. Ethel kept diaries for a remarkable 62 years, recording the details of her full and eventful life. In January 1893 she recorded in her diary, "Night started a new story that I shall call Seven Little Australians." Later that year, she finished the book, parcelled it up and sent it off to a publisher in Melbourne. Since then the book has sold over 2 million copies in the English language and has been reprinted over 50 times. It has been translated into at least 11 languages, per ...more

Average rating: 3.87 · 5,398 ratings · 377 reviews · 55 distinct worksSimilar authors
Seven Little Australians (W...

3.89 avg rating — 4,821 ratings — published 1894 — 202 editions
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The Family at Misrule (Wool...

3.69 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1895 — 56 editions
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Little Mother Meg (Woolcots...

3.80 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1902 — 10 editions
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Judy and Punch (Woolcots, #4)

3.79 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1928 — 4 editions
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The Diaries of Ethel Turner

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Miss Bobbie

3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1897 — 7 editions
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The Little Larrikin

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Three Little Maids

3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1900 — 30 editions
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Captain Cub

3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1917 — 2 editions
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In the Mist of the Mountains

3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1906 — 62 editions
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“None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.”
Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians

“and then ah God”
Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians

“But again and again that night there came to him Meg's white, still face as it lay on the scarlet cushions, and he knew the wind that stirred the curtains at the window had been playing with the long grass in the churchyard a few minutes since.”
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