Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians

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7 Little Australians, 1973 ABC TV mini series

In an era when fiction was supposed to be about ‘good’ children, Ethel Turner dared to make her seven Aussie children naughty, getting into constant scrapes and sometimes getting away with them. In 1994 this was the only book by an Australian author to have been continuously in print for 100 years.

Seven Little Australians was set in Sydney in the 1880s. Yet the lessons of the novel are as relevant today as when the book first appeared. Revisit and celebrate this fabulous Australian novel and learn about the remarkable woman who wrote it.

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“The reader cannot help but be charmed by Ethel Turner’s wonderful characters.”
― Kate Campbell

On her 21st birthday, a young woman named Ethel Turner added a note to her diary: “Seven L. Aust. – sketched it out.” That was in 1893. One hundred years later, the book she had dreamed up would be the only book by an Australian author to have been continuously in print for one hundred years. Seven Little Australians is an Australian classic.

Ethel Turner went on to write children’s columns in newspapers and magazines, and she wrote more than 40 books. She married, brought up two children and had a busy social and professional life. She was not born Australian, and yet when her publisher suggested she go to England to gain some ‘English polish’, she resisted – she was determinedly Australian in her style and her themes, as well as her settings.

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Featured image credit- Mark Shields-Brown, Jennifer Cluff, Anna Hruby, Christian Robinson, Mark Clark, 7 Little Australians, 1973 ABC TV mini series, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140763/

Comments (2)

  1. Kathryn Tiller

    Thank you Susannah for a marvellous illustrated lecture on Ethel Turner. Somehow I was not exposed to her as a young person, neither at school or home. I will make sure to read Seven Little Australians and see the ABC series. Many thanks.

    • Susannah Fullerton

      I am delighted you enjoyed the illustrated lecture. Do read the book and watch the series, and have some tissues handy.

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