Books written prior to King Anne Isabel’s reviews in Ethel’s book Each had illustrated books for Ethel Turner. Johnson‘s small-format illustrations were later replaced by full page works from J. Possibly Harold Copping, and it seems A.J. The artist has not been acknowledged and from online booksellers information you can take your pick. The far right image was adapted and embossed on the front cover of King Anne. They are miniature works of art in their own right, sometimes removed and framed by the book owner. The frontispiece and three illustration plates are beautifully rendered, showing family life at the time. Written in brackets underneath ETHEL TURNER is the abbreviation Mrs coupled with her husband’s name thus Mrs H.
The book has foxing and is not in good condition but you can see the etiquette of the time. Now I WILL have to read it!įirst I shall create a pictorial and some background information- I doubt it had a dustjacket Showing its age and handling Here you can see the author’s married name I do love a book with chapter titles The bookcover faded and King Anne languished for many, many years on the family bookshelves, sandwiched between ancient copies of Kidnapped, Pilgrims Progress and Wind in the Willows, and enduring several moves until by some quirk of fate I reached for it today February 2022 when my great aunt and grandmother would have read it one hundred years ago. Cazneaux’s portrait of Ethel Turner in the window of her study at her Mosman home Avenel NSW 1928 Original hardback bookcover Perhaps because I didn’t quite get into her first novel, the epic family saga Seven Little Australians (1894) of which NSW State Library holds the original hand-written manuscript, I therefore gave pseudo-royal King Anne’s weighty tome (as it seemed to me at the time) a wide detour. King Anne was Turner’s thirty-sixth published work. She wrote over 30 books and collections of short stories and verse, mostly centred around girls and for girls. Unfortunately at that time I was not the least bit interested.īritish-born Australian author Ethel Turner (1870-1958) was a novelist and children’s literature writer. Many years passed by and when Grandma thought the time was right she passed King Anne on to me. K ing Anne by Ethel Turner was published in 1921 and my great aunt gifted this novel to her sister, my paternal grandmother, at Christmastime in 1922 after she had first read it.
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