Credit:Brook Mitchell
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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About this Event
Join author and literary lecturer Susannah Fullerton in an examination of P.G. Wodehouse’s much-loved series, Jeeves and Wooster. Why do these novels have such charm? What did Wodehouse do to alienate the British reading public? Why do we still read Jeeves and Wooster today?
Susannah Fullerton OAM is President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia. She is an author, tour guide and literary lecturer.