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TURNER, ETHEL MARY (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). 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 and her elder sister Lillian Wattnall Burwell (1867-1956) took their stepfather's name and were known by it throughout their professional careers. Turner, a factory manager, fell into financial difficulties and left only £200 when he died at Coventry in August 1878.

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Uniform title: Little mother Meg. Swedish
by Turner, Ethel, 1870-1958
Stockholm : B. Wahlstroms, 1930
 
 
Uniform title: Nicola Silver. Dutch
by Turner, Ethel, 1870-1958
Alkmaar : Gebr. Kluitman, [1926]
 
 
by Turner, Ethel, 1870-1958
North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1991, c1988
 
 
by Turner, Ethel, 1870-1958
London ; Melbourne : Ward, Lock, [between 1946 and 1950]
 
 
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