The Diaries Of Ethel Turner

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: New Holland
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: Reprint

Description: 374 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Ethel Turner (1870-1958) is the author of some of Australias best-selling childrens novels including Seven Little Australians and The Cub. Many of her early stories first appeared in The Bulletin. She was editor of the Childrens Page in the Town and Country Journal for 27 years and then Cheif Sunbeamer for the Sunday Sun. In private life she was Mrs H.R. Curlewis. Here, her granddaughter, Philippa Poole, has selected the most interesting sequence of events from the authors diaries, from 1889, at the start of her outstanding literary career, to 1930, when with the tragic death of her daughter, Jean, she ceased writing childrens books altogether. Candid and imaginative in life as well as in literature, Ethel Turners diaries bring her Sydney life in the 1900s into attractive perspective, describing Government House balls and garden parties, and generous gifts bought from the financial success of her books. Readers of her diaries today will appreciate the achievements of Ethel Turner, both in literature and in Australian society, and gain more understanding of her unique place in our heritage."

ISBN: 9781741101973