Ethel Sibyl Turner b. 1870

Also known as Ethel Curlewis, Ethel Mary Burwell, Ethel M. Turner, Ethel Mary Turner, Ethel Turner
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Novelist, author of 'Seven Little Australians', whose artistic practice was more a socially acceptable hobby than a serious endeavour. Before consolidating her successful career as a writer Turner, with her older sister Lilian, taught art to children.

Citations

  • Poole, Philippa (ed.) (1979), 'The Diaries of Ethel Turner’, Sydney, NSW : Lansdowne (paperback edn 1998).

  • Turner, (Ethel); and Stevens, Bertram (eds) (1919), 'The Australian Soldiers’ Gift Book’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Niall, Brenda (1990), 'Turner, Ethel Mary (1870 – 1958)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, Melbourne University Press, pp 290-292.

  • Favelle, Kathryn (2000), ''My Last Great Work (Hah, Hah!)’ The Juvenilia of Australian Writers’, National Library of Australia News, September, p. 8.

See also

  • 'School Note Book of Ethel Turner, Manuscript Collection (MS749, series 1-4, folder 114-115)', National Library of Australia, Canberra, reproduced in Kathryn Favelle, 'My Last Great Work (Hah, Hah!) The Juvenilia of Australian Writers, National Library of Australia News, September 2000, 8.

Initial data sources

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