Ethel Turner

Ethel Turner was born on 24 January 1870 near Doncaster, in England, according to People Australia, which places her birth at Balby (1872 or 1873 according to other sources). Her mother, a widow, went to Sydney in 1879 with her daughters and remarried there. Still a teenager, she founded a literary magazine with her sister Lilian, and published short stories and poems in the press. In 1896 she married the lawyer Herbert Curlewis. She wrote more than forty books; her diaries were gathered by Philippa Poole. She died on 8 April 1958 in Mosman, Sydney.

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• NovelSeven Little AustraliansEthel Turner · 1894Literature