Pip (real name Philip), 14: eldest brother, handsome, intelligent but badly-behaved.Meg (real name Margaret), 16: naive, romantic, eldest (but immature) sister and sometime surrogate mother to the younger children.The book's protagonists are the seven Woolcot children, from oldest to youngest: It has been extensively adapted for other media, including as a film, two different television mini-series, various stage plays and a stage musical. The original title of the novel, as written by Turner, was 'Seven Pickles'. The full text of the manuscript has been digitized and can be viewed on the Library's website. The book's original handwritten manuscript is held by the State Library of NSW. – sketched it out.' (24 January 1893) In 1994 the novel was the only book by an Australian author to have been continuously in print for 100 years. On her 21st birthday, Ethel wrote in her diary, 'Seven L. The suburban bushland surroundings quickly became important in Turner's stories. Turner wrote the novel in 1893 while living at Inglewood in what was then rural Lindfield (now Woodlands, Killara, New South Wales), having moved there from the inner city suburb of Paddington in 1891. Set mainly in Sydney in the 1880s, it relates the adventures of the seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern army father Captain Woolcot, and faithful young stepmother Esther. Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian children's literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894.

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