Ethel Turner and Herbert Raine Curlewis family papers

fonds

approximately 1878-1958

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Objects, Ephemera

9665418

3.15 metres of textual material (15 boxes, 1 outsize box)
241 photographic prints
32 negatives
25 objects

Ethel Turner (1870-1958) came to Australia with her mother and three sisters in 1881. Ethel was educated along with her sister Lillian at Sydney Girls' High School where they ran their own magazine, The Iris. When Ethel left school the sisters founded and co-edited a sixpenny monthly, The Parthenon, which lasted for three years until its printers, Gordon & Gotch, were sued for libel. In 1896, Ethel married Herbert Raine Curlewis and they had a daughter Jean Curlewis (1898–1930) and a son, Adrian Curlewis (1901-1985). Ethel Turner is one of Australia’s best-known children’s writers. Her first novel, Seven Little Australians (1894) is widely regarded as a classic and its publication marked a turning point in Australian children’s literature. Ethel Turner wrote over 40 books and many of her earlier stories first appeared in The Bulletin. She was the editor of the children’s page in the Town and Country Journal for 27 years and Chief ‘Sunbeamer’ for the children’s page of the Sunday Sun newspaper from 1921-1931.

Reference: Library acquisition file

Passed by descent to Ethel Turner's granddaughter Phillipa Poole

Series 1: Ethel Turner diaries and notebooks, 1889-1951
Series 2: Ethel Turner and Herbert Raine Curlewis family correspondence, approximately 1879 to 1958
Series 3: Ethel Turner further literary papers, approximately 1890 to 1948
Series 4: Ethel Turner and Herbert Curlewis printed publications and papers, approximately 1878-1953
Series 5: Ethel Turner and Herbert Raine Curlewis photographs and negatives, approximately 1888 to 1958
Series 6: Ethel Turner objects, approximately 1890 to 1935

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