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Issue Details: First known date: 1896... 1896 The Little Larrikin
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Notes

  • Dedication: To my severest critic...[followed by long statement]
  • Work on various editions including foreign editions to be continued.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Ward, Lock ,       1896 .
      Extent: viii, 343 p., [4] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1896 Twice. , 1897 , 1897
      Note/s:
      • No date except 1896 at end of dedication pages.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock ,       ca. 1910 .
      Extent: 343 p., [2] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1914
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Ward, Lock ,       1920 .
      Extent: 255 p., [3] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock ,       1946-1950 .
      Extent: 255 p., [1] leaf of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Only 1 illustration.
      Series: Popular Gift Books Ward, Lock (publisher), 1929-1954 series - publisher children's fiction children's Number in series: 103
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Ure Smith , 1978 .
      Extent: 296p., [12] leaves of part col.platesp.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0725404620
Alternative title: Lol : Australischer Roman
Language: German
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Works about this Work

Larrikinism and Ethel Turner's Fiction : The Sand-Patch and the Garden Ron Shepherd , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tilting at Matilda : Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia 1994; (p. 46-59)
The Real Australian Girl? Some Post-Federation Writers for Girls Kerry White , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Time to Write : Australian Women Writers 1890-1930 1993; (p. 73-87)
Writing the Home : The Literary Careers of Ethel Turner and L. M. Montgomery Brenda Niall , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 175-180) Niall discusses the literary careers of Australian writer Ethel Turner and Canadian writer L. M. Montgomery with attention to how, as contemporaries, their experiences often paralleled one another. She argues that Turner revolutionized Australian children's literature by bringing 'the action indoors and show[ing] that suburban Australia could be at least as interesting as the outback' (175). As Niall points out 'traditionally, Australian writers have concerned themselves with the city or the bush; there is very little representation of small town communities or closely settled farming districts' (178-179). Up until the 1960s there was very little development of novels that celebrate regionalism and Niall cites Colin Thiele's The Sun on the Stubble as 'perhaps the best example of an emerging regional tradition' (179). While Montgomery's recurring motif was 'the orphan's search for a home', Turner's novels often centred on the struggle of an individual or family 'with poverty or a father's tyranny as the source of conflict' (178), and featured independent and resourceful heroines who often had to choose between 'a career as a writer or artist and marriage and motherhood' (176).
Bazza and Belushi - Lair and Larrikin Ross Fitzgerald , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Larrikin Streak: Australian Writers Look at the Legend 1990; (p. 155-165)
Mother and Daughter 1921 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 3 December 1921; (p. 38)
— Review of King Anne Ethel Turner , 1921 single work children's fiction ; The Ship that Never Set Sail Jean Curlewis , 1921 single work novel
Literature. Literary Notes 1896 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Mail , 14 November vol. 62 no. 1897 1896; (p. 1030)
— Review of The Little Larrikin Ethel Turner , 1896 single work children's fiction
New Books and New Editions 1896 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 14 November vol. 53 no. 1397 1896; (p. 44)
— Review of The Little Larrikin Ethel Turner , 1896 single work children's fiction
The Rudiments of Fiction 1896 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 28 November vol. 17 no. 876 1896; (p. Red page)
— Review of The Little Larrikin Ethel Turner , 1896 single work children's fiction
Writing the Home : The Literary Careers of Ethel Turner and L. M. Montgomery Brenda Niall , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 175-180) Niall discusses the literary careers of Australian writer Ethel Turner and Canadian writer L. M. Montgomery with attention to how, as contemporaries, their experiences often paralleled one another. She argues that Turner revolutionized Australian children's literature by bringing 'the action indoors and show[ing] that suburban Australia could be at least as interesting as the outback' (175). As Niall points out 'traditionally, Australian writers have concerned themselves with the city or the bush; there is very little representation of small town communities or closely settled farming districts' (178-179). Up until the 1960s there was very little development of novels that celebrate regionalism and Niall cites Colin Thiele's The Sun on the Stubble as 'perhaps the best example of an emerging regional tradition' (179). While Montgomery's recurring motif was 'the orphan's search for a home', Turner's novels often centred on the struggle of an individual or family 'with poverty or a father's tyranny as the source of conflict' (178), and featured independent and resourceful heroines who often had to choose between 'a career as a writer or artist and marriage and motherhood' (176).
Mother and Daughter 1921 single work review
— Appears in: The Queenslander , 3 December 1921; (p. 38)
— Review of King Anne Ethel Turner , 1921 single work children's fiction ; The Ship that Never Set Sail Jean Curlewis , 1921 single work novel
The Real Australian Girl? Some Post-Federation Writers for Girls Kerry White , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Time to Write : Australian Women Writers 1890-1930 1993; (p. 73-87)
Larrikinism and Ethel Turner's Fiction : The Sand-Patch and the Garden Ron Shepherd , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tilting at Matilda : Literature, Aborigines, Women and the Church in Contemporary Australia 1994; (p. 46-59)
Bazza and Belushi - Lair and Larrikin Ross Fitzgerald , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Larrikin Streak: Australian Writers Look at the Legend 1990; (p. 155-165)
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