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Ethel Turner

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born

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

died

April 08, 1958

gender

female

genre

Children's Books

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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

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Books by Ethel Turner

Average rating: 3.77 · 674 ratings · 56 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 1894 — 56 editions	My rating:
	The Family at Misrule (Woolcots, #2) 3.65 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1895 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Little Mother Meg (Woolcots, #3) 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1902 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Judy and Punch (Woolcots, #4) 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1928 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The diaries of Ethel Turner by Ethel Turner, Philippa Poole 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Little Larrikin by Ethel Turner, H.R. Curlewis 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1896	My rating:
	Three Little Maids (1899) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Walking To School: Poems by Ethel Turner, Peter Gouldthorpe 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	My rating:
	Miss Bobbie by Ethel Turner, Genevieve Rees (Illustrator) 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Jennifer, J 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1922	My rating:

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Series by Ethel Turner

The Woolcots (4 books)
by Ethel Turner

3.78 avg rating — 654 ratings

Quotes by Ethel Turner

“None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.”
― Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians

tags: australia , children-s-literature

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

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