Ethel Turner diaries, 1889-1923, 1928

MAV/FM4/6539, frames 1-626
MAV/FM4/6540, frames 1-350
MAV/FM4/6541, frames 1-695

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1889-1923, 1928

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3 microfilm reels of textual material

Ethel Turner, author, 1870-1958 came to Australia with her parents in 1881. Her first book, Seven Little Australians was published in 1894. In 1896 she married Herbert Raine Curlewis.

These microfilm copies were made from a selection of Ethel Turner's diaries in 1976 when the original diaries were in the possession of Mrs Poole, Llanille, Jerry's Plains, N.S.W. The original diaries were subsequently purchased by the State Library of NSW in 2022.

a. Diaries, 1889-1902
(Microfilm: MAV/FM4/6539, frames 1-626)

b. Diaries, 1903-1910
(Microfilm: MAV/FM4/6540, frames 1-350)

c. Diaries, 1911-1923, 1928
(Microfilm: MAV/FM4/6541, frames 1-695)

Includes daily account of personal matters, family affairs, progress of work on her various literary articles & books and occasional comments on aspects of her writing.

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Copyright status:: In copyright
Research & study copies allowed

The State Library of New South Wales acquired the original diaries in 2022. They are catalogued at: Series 1: Ethel Turner diaries and notebooks, 1889-1951, MLMSS 11763/Boxes 1-7

Lent for copying, 1976.

Master negatives also held.

Before being granted access to the microfilm all readers are to read the following statement by Mrs A. Poole, editor of The diaries of Ethel Turner.
'In the book, The diaries of Ethel Turner, published in 1979, I state that 'to the best of my knowledge', the entries and information contained herein are accurate. However it will be found that not all entry dates in the book strictly correspond with dates shown in the original diaries. This variation was necessary for several reasons, the main one being that 40 years of diary entries had to be covered in a mere 286 pages, when the material available would have probably filled over 1000 pages. This necessitated taking excerpts from one day and combining with entries from another, both to make the book more readable and to conserve space. Also a separate notebook (not on microfilm) was used to supplement information about Jean'.