The Diaries of Ethel TurnerNew Holland Publishers (AU), 2002 - Authors, Australian Candid and imaginative in life as well as in literature, Ethel Turner's diaries - as selected by her granddaughter Phillipa Poole - bring her Sydney life in the 1900's into attractive perspective, describing Government House balls and garden parties, and the generous gifts brought from the financial success of her books. |
Contents
1890 So Small and Still and White CHAPTER III 1891 The Course of True Love Never Did | 9 |
1892 He Would Far Rather Bury | 4 |
1893 A Red Letter Day CHAPTER VI 1894 Fame Seems Coming to Me CHAPTER VII 1895 We are Going to be Very Poor CHAPTER VIII 1896 A... | 14 |
1897 Dreamed Sweet Dreams | |
1898 That Strange Little Urgent | |
1899 Flying Down the Tram Line Tracks | |
1900 The Land is Ours | |
19011909 There are Too Many Departments in Life | |
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A. B. Paterson Adrian afternoon APRIL asked AUGUST Babe Baby boat bought Bowral Cope copy cottage Creed Curlewis Curnow Daily Telegraph dance dear little DECEMBER diaries dinner Dorothea Mackellar drawing room dress Ethel Turner FEBRUARY feel felt finished garden gave girl Gum Leaves happy Herbert Hermsley horrid idled JANUARY Jean John of Daunt JULY JUNE Lady Larrikin literary Little Duchess Little Larrikin look Louie lovely lunch MARCH married Miss morning Mother nearly Neutral Bay never nice Nicola Silver night NOVEMBER OCTOBER painting paper Parthenon picnic play Pockley poem pretty Rose Rosie says seems sent SEPTEMBER Seven Little Australians sewed short stories Stolen Voyage sweet Sydney talked tennis things thought told took town train tram walked Ward Lock week write wrote