Ethel Turner

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...