author
Ethel Turner
1870–1958
Best known for the enduring classic Seven Little Australians, this English-born Australian writer helped shape children's fiction with stories that felt lively, local, and true to family life. Her work stayed popular for decades and introduced generations of readers to a distinctly Australian childhood.
8 Audiobooks
The family at Misrule
by Ethel Turner
The Story of a Baby
by Ethel Turner
Seven Little Australians
by Ethel Turner
In the Mist of the Mountains
by Ethel Turner
The Wonder-Child: An Australian Story
by Ethel Turner
Three little maids
by Ethel Turner
The Family at Misrule
by Ethel Turner
Zeven kleine Australiërs
by Ethel Turner
About the author
Born in Yorkshire in 1870 and taken to Australia as a child, Ethel Turner grew up in Sydney and began writing while still young. She became one of Australia's best-known authors for children, with a gift for combining humor, warmth, and sharp observation.
Her breakthrough came with Seven Little Australians in 1894, a novel that became a landmark of Australian children's literature. Unlike many children's books of its time, it showed family life with energy, mischief, and real emotion, and it remained her best-loved work.
Turner went on to publish many more novels, stories, poems, and travel writing over a long career. She died in 1958, but her books — especially Seven Little Australians — continued to be read as classics of Australian writing.