The Australiana Research Collection holds many treasures, including children’s books from the late Victorian era to the early twentieth century. This display includes books by pioneering Australian women writers Mary Grant Bruce, Ethel Turner and Emily Brodie, and illustrated books including Annie Rentoul and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite’s ‘The Little Green Road to Fairy Land’ and Norman Lindsay’s ‘The Magic Pudding’.
Monday to Thursday 10.00am to 4.00pm
Image: ‘You must do it for the sake of us all!’, an illustration from ‘The Little Green Road to Fairyland’ by Annie R Rentoul (writer) and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (illustrator), A & C Black, London, 1922, Australiana Research Collection
