Lilian Turner [SEP] sister
Lilian Turner
Lilian Turner (21 August 1867 – 25 August 1956), born Lilian Wattnall Burwell, was the elder sister of Ethel Turner and the daughter of Bennett George and Sarah Jane Burwell. Bennett George Burwell died when Lilian was still a young child, and her mother married a widower, Henry Turner, a year later. Both Lilian and Ethel would later take their step-father's name for their professional writing careers. Sarah and Henry had a daughter, Jeannie Rose (born 1873), but Henry died
maintain her family in genteel poverty and presents the third marriage to Charles Cope as a means of rescue.
Ethel and her older sister Lilian Turner, who would also become an author, attended Sydney Girls High School. Their literary careers began with the magazine they established at school called the "Iris".
In 1889 following her graduation from school, Ethel and Lilian founded and co-edited a literary magazine, entitled "The Parthenon". "The Parthenon" consisted of romantic fiction, serial stories, essays,