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Ethel Turner (24 January 1872 – 8 April 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer.
Ethel Mary Turner (1870-1958), author, was born on 24 January 1870 at Balby, Yorkshire, England, second child of Bennett George Burwell.

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Author and artist Ethel Sibyl Turner (1870-1958) wrote Seven Little Australians at Inglewood in Lindfield (now Woodlands, Killara) in 1893. Her suburban bushland surrounds became a key feature of her stories. On her 23rd birthday, Ethel wrote in her diary,

'We have decided to go to Lindfield. It will be like being buried alive to live in a quiet little country place after the bustle and excitement of town life’, wrote Ethel Turner, who was not keen on her family’s move to the North Shore from the city suburb of Paddington in 1891. Although Ethel initially objected to the move, she soon 'liked the place awfully. It is a pretty square house with a long balcony and verandah, honeysuckle and white roses creeping up' (29 Sept 1891[AW1] ).

Ethel Turner was born in England in 1870. In 1879 she migrated to Australia with her mother and two sisters. The family settled in Sydney where Ethel and her sister Lilian attended Sydney Girls High School. They both edited a schoolgirls' magazine, Iris, and later the Parthenon, a lite

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Ethel Turner

Australian writer

For the American journalist and writer, see Ethel Duffy Turner.

Ethel Turner (24 January 1872 – 8 April 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer.

Life

She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah Jane Burwell with two daughters (Ethel and Lillian). A year later, Sarah Jane married Henry Turner, who was 20 years older and had six children of his own. Sarah Jane and Henry had a daughter, Rose. Henry Turner died suddenly, leaving Sarah Jane with nine children and little income. In 1879 Sarah Jane moved to Australia with Ethel, Lillian, and Rose; within the next two years she married Charles Cope and gave birth to his son Rex.^[1]

Turner was educated at Paddington, New South Wales Public School and Sydney Girls High School^[2]—she was one of the school's original thirty-seven pupils.

She started her writing career at eighteen, founding the Parthenon, a journal for young people, with her sister Lillian.

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Ethel Turner

Ethel Turner (1870-1958), writer, came to Australia with her twice-widowed mother at the age of nine. She attended the selective school Sydney Girls' High before founding a magazine, the Parthenon, contributing the children's page and serialized adult romances for its three-year duration. By 1893 she was editing the children's page of the Illustrated Sydney News; she performed the same function at the Australian Town and Country Journal until 1919. Her first book, Seven Little Australians, was published in London in 1894. The first edition sold out within weeks. Its sequel, The Family at Misrule, appeared in 1895. The following year Turner married the barrister Herbert Raine Curlewis; their son, Adrian, was to become a judge and the first President of the Surf Lifesaving Association of Australia. During World War I, in which Turner worked for patriotic causes, she published a trilogy in which, according to her biographer Brenda Niall, the 'ideal of loyalty to Empire is combined with a strong sense of Australian nationalism'. Once the family moved into their new house