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Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible – but seven children were really too much for him and most of the time they ran wild at their rambling riverside home, Misrule.
Step inside and meet them all – dreamy Meg, and Pip, daring Judy, naughty Bunty, Nell, Baby and the youngest, 'the General'. Come and share in their lives, their laughter and their tears.
Author Biography
Born in England in 1870, Ethel Turner came to Australia with her mother
and sisters when she was 10 years old. She showed a great love of
literature while at school and in her late teens launched a literary
and social magazine in Sydney with her sister Lilian. Ethel kept
diaries for a remarkable 62 years, recording the details of her full
and eventful life.
In January 1893 she recorded in her diary, 'Night
started a new story that I shall call
Seven Little Australians.'
Later that year, she finished the book, parcelled it up and sent it off
to a publisher in Melbourne. Since then the book has sold over 2
million copies in the English language and has been reprinted over 50
times. It has been translated into at least 11 languages, performed as
a stage play, and been made into a film, a BBC television series in
1953, and a 10-episode television series for the ABC in 1973.
Ethel Turner went on to write over 40 books in her lifetime, including
children's stories, short stories and poems, many of which appeared in
the
Town and Country journal and in the
Sun Herald
newspaper.
Seven Little Australians has been read and loved by
children all over the world, and it has been continuously in print for
over 100 years. Ethel Turner died in 1958, leaving as her memorial a
book that is now regarded as a classic in children's literature. Her
granddaughter Philippa Poole has published a book about her grandmother
entitled
The Diaries of Ethel Turner.