Perhaps because I didn’t quite get into her first novel, the epic family saga Seven Little Australians (1894) of which NSW State Library holds the original hand-written manuscript, I therefore gave pseudo-royal King Anne’s weighty tome (as it seemed to me at the time) a wide detour. King Anne was Turner’s thirty-sixth published work. She wrote over 30 books and collections of short stories and verse, mostly centred around girls and for girls. Unfortunately at that time I was not the least bit interested.īritish-born Australian author Ethel Turner (1870-1958) was a novelist and children’s literature writer. Many years passed by and when Grandma thought the time was right she passed King Anne on to me. K ing Anne by Ethel Turner was published in 1921 and my great aunt gifted this novel to her sister, my paternal grandmother, at Christmastime in 1922 after she had first read it.
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