Seven Little Australians - Softcover
Seven Little Australians (1894) is a classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot, and flighty stepmother Esther. Turner wrote the novel whilst living at Inglewood in what was then rural Lindfield, (now Woodlands, Killara). The suburban bushland surroundings quickly became important in Turner's stories. In 1994 the novel was the only book by an Australian author to have been continuously in print for 100 years. The seven children of the title live in 1880s Sydney with their father, an army Captain who has little understanding of his children, and their 20-year-old stepmother Esther, who can exert little discipline on them. Accordingly, they wreak havoc wherever possible, for example by interrupting their parents while they entertain guests and asking for some of their dinner. After a prank by Judy and Pip embarrasses Captain Woolcot at his military barracks, he orders that ringleader Judy be sent away to boarding school in the Blue Mountains.
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A compelling novel recounting the high jinx, drama and tragedy of the large unruly family Woolcot family in 1900s Australia . . .
About the Author:
Ethel Turner (18731958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer. She started her writing career at eighteen with her sister Lillian, with whom she founded the Parthenon, a journal for young people. As 'Dame Durden', she wrote children's columns for the Illustrated Sydney News and later for the Town and Country Journal.In 1891 the family moved to Inglewood, a large house in Lindfield, now Killara, which forms the fictional setting for Seven Little Australians.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1537771051
- ISBN 13 9781537771052
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages84
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