Seven Little Australians' wild heroine, Judy, was equipped to conquer the world – but not to survive it

  • Written by: Edwina Preston, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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I can’t remember if I first met Judy Woolcot on the TV screen or in print: the two versions have cohered into a single entity. The television series of Ethel Turner’s Seven Little Australians first aired in 1973, so if I met her on-screen, it must’ve been via re-runs.

I know my mother’s paperback...

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