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Literary historian Susannah Fullerton launched the Friends of Ethel Turner, which aims to raise the profile of the home and author who was a pupil at Sydney Girlsâ High School.
âToday we celebrate this wonderful novel at the very place in which it was written,â she said. âIt is so exciting to explore the lovely front rooms of this house, to see them looking so much as Ethel would have known them.â
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