ABSTRACT
This chapter explores multiple migrations in a cluster of Turner's turn of the century novels. Ethel Turner was writing her first literary successes at a time of political and economic upheaval in Australia. The Woolcot children have been regarded as emblematic of the exuberant, informal country of their birth, and hence in natural conflict with their ineffectually domineering English born father, who is representative of the Old World. A triangulation of the Turner, British and Misrule novels will illustrates how transoceanic migration features in Australian domestic fiction of the time, how a settler world characterized by unprecedented mobility is perceived in these narratives, and how domestic concerns become newly situated within this world. What author stress here is how Australian domestic fiction and even the classic works by a nationalist children's writer feature both failed settler homes and a range of multiple migrations. Failed emigration is always problematic in settler writing, but in Australian domestic fiction it becomes particularly vexed.
