Ethel Turner's autobiographical novel, Three Little Maids (1900), describes her mother's struggle to maintain her family in genteel poverty and presents the third marriage as a means of rescue.Įthel and Lilian were educated at Sydney Girls' High School where they ran their own magazine, the Iris, in opposition to the Gazette, edited by Louise Mack. On 31 December 1880 she married Charles Cope, a clerk in the Department of Lands and brother of William Cope their son Charles Rex completed the three-level family. Next year Mrs Turner migrated with her daughters to Sydney. Turner, a factory manager, fell into financial difficulties and left only £200 when he died at Coventry in August 1878. Ethel and her elder sister Lillian Wattnall Burwell (1867-1956) took their stepfather's name and were known by it throughout their professional careers. Burwell died in Paris in Ethel's infancy on 21 August 1872 in the register office, Yarmouth, Sarah Jane Shaw married Henry Turner, a widower with six sons they were to have a daughter Jeannie Rose (b.1873). Ethel Mary Turner (1870-1958), author, was born on 24 January 1870 at Balby, Yorkshire, England, second child of Bennett George Burwell, commercial traveller, and his wife Sarah Jane, née Shaw (d.1923).
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