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Ethel Turner

Born

in Balby, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom

January 24, 1870

Died

April 08, 1958

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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Average rating: 3.87 · 5,418 ratings · 380 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors

	Seven Little Australians (Woolcots, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 4,841 ratings — published 1894 — 202 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family at Misrule (Woolcots, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1895 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Mother Meg (Woolcots, #3) 3.81 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1902 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Judy and Punch (Woolcots, #4) 3.79 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1928 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diaries of Ethel Turner by Ethel Turner, Philippa Poole 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss Bobbie 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1897 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Larrikin by Ethel Turner, H.R. Curlewis 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1896 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Little Maids 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1900 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Mist of the Mountains 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1906 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Cub 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1917 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Woolcots (4 books)
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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

tags: australia, children-s-literature

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

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“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.”
― Ethel Turner

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June 2019 Group Read - Classics

We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn

30 votes, 40.5%

The Harp in the South by Ruth Park

25 votes, 33.8%

Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner

19 votes, 25.7%

74 total votes

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