Ethel Turner

Australian author
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Also known as: Ethel Curlewis, Ethel Sibyl Turner
Quick Facts
In full:
Ethel Sibyl Turner
Married name:
Curlewis
Born:
Jan. 24, 1872, Doncaster, Yorkshire, Eng.
Died:
April 8, 1958, Sydney, Australia (aged 86)

Ethel Turner (born Jan. 24, 1872, Doncaster, Yorkshire, Eng.—died April 8, 1958, Sydney, Australia) was an Australian novelist and writer for children, whose popular novel Seven Little Australians (1894) was filmed (1939), twice dramatized for television, once in Great Britain (1953) and once in Australia (1973), and made into a musical (1978). Turner’s parents immigrated with her to Australia in 1881, and she was educated and reared in Sydney. She and a sister published a monthly magazine, The Parthenon, from 1889 to 1892, and thereafter she was employed as a children’s writer-editor for newspapers in Sydney. Seven Little Australians, her ...(100 of 144 words)