Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian children's literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894. 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.
Cover of the 16th edition, 1912, publisher Ward Lock & Co, illustrations by J. Macfarlane
Ethel Turner was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer.
Ethel Turner, 1928, by Harold Cazneaux
Cazneaux's portrait of Ethel Turner posing in the window of her study at her Mosman home, ‘Avenel’, 1928