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Is part of Seven Little Australians Series Ethel Turner , 1894 series - author (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1895... 1895 The Family at Misrule
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Notes

  • Epigraph: 'To youth the greatest reverence is due.' -- Juvenal.
  • Epigraph: 'Ah that spring should vanish with the Rose! / That youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!' -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
  • Dedication: To Charles Cope, my stepfather and friend.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock and Bowden ,       1895 .
      Extent: 282p., [1] leaf of platesp.
      Edition info: 2nd. ed.
      Description: illus.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock ,       1896 .
      Extent: 282 p., [2] leaves of platesp.
      Edition info: 3rd edition.
      Description: illus.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock ,       1897 .
      Extent: 282 p., [1] leaf of platesp.
      Edition info: 4th ed.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Ross Burnet A Turner Bibliography (2003) dates 4th edition, 1897.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Ward, Lock ,       1900-1910 .
      Extent: 282, [2] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.255
      Note/s:
      • In publishers catalogue at back of book, last Turner title listed by date is Three Little Maids, first known date 1900. Assuming that subsequent editions of The Family at Misrule would then list The Wonder-Child (1901) and/or Little Mother Meg (1900), the date would be 1900-1902.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Ward, Lock ,       1900 .
      Extent: 282 p., [3] leaves of platesp.
      Edition info: 5th edition.
      Description: illus.
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       David McKay ,       ca. 1910 .
      Extent: 255 p., [3] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Ward, Lock ,       1949 .
      Alternative title: The Family at Misrule : Further Adventures of the Famous 'Seven Little Australians'
      Extent: 255 p., [1] leaf of platesp.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Seven Little Australians [and] The Family at Misrule Ethel Turner , Sydney : John Ferguson , 1982 23494711 1982 selected work children's fiction Sydney : John Ferguson , 1982
    • North Ryde, Ryde - Gladesville - Hunters Hill area, Northwest Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1989 .
      Extent: 255p.
      ISBN: 0207160945 (pbk.), 0140347313 (Penguin : pbk.)
      Series: y separately published work icon Bluegum Bluegum Paperbacks Angus and Robertson (publisher), Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1975-1997 Z1528574 1987 series - publisher children's fiction children's 'Quality paperbacks for children from Angus and Robertson.'
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Toronto, Ontario,
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      Canada,
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      Americas,      :       Ward, Lock ,       [n.d.] .
      Extent: 255, [1] leaf of platesp.
      Note/s:
      • Includes 'Publisher's Note to New Edition' but no date.
Alternative title: De Bewoners van Misrule
Language: Dutch
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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).
Books That Changed Me : Stephanie Alexander Stephanie Alexander , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 8 July 2012; (p. 14)
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— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 22 February vol. 52 no. 1359 1896; (p. 30)
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