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. 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. Seven Little Australians is a classic Australian childrens literature novel by Ethel Turner, published in 1894. The suburban bushland surroundings quickly became important in Turner's stories. Turner wrote the novel in 1893 whilst living at Inglewood in what was then rural Lindfield, (now Woodlands, Killara), having moved there from the 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 flighty stepmother Esther. Seven Little Australians (1894) is a classic Australian children's novel by Ethel Turner.
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