Ethel Turner

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Ethel Turner in 1928

Ethel Turner (1870-1958) was an Australian writer. She is best remembered as the writer of Seven Little Australians.

Works written by Ethel Turner include:

The Woolcot series:

  • Seven Little Australians (1894)
  • The Family at Misrule (1895)
  • Little Mother Meg (1902)
  • Judy and Punch (1928)

Other novels:

  • Three Little Maids (1900)


Ethel Turner provides examples of the following tropes:
  • Write What You Know: Three Little Maids, about a widowed English mother moving with her young daughters to Australia, is based on Turner's childhood.