Ethel Pedley

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Cover of a 1920 publication of Dot and the Kangaroo

Ethel Charlotte Pedley (19 June 1859 – 6 August 1898) was an Australian author and musician.

Pedley's most well-known book is Dot and the Kangaroo, which featured a little girl named Dot who becomes lost in the Australian outback, and is helped to find her way back home by a friendly kangaroo. The illustrations were drawn by Frank P. Mahony.

Pedley was a believer in the conservation of the Australian flora and fauna, and usually wrote her books from this perspective, singling out 'man' as disconnected from nature and the rest of the animals.

Ethel's preface to Dot and the Kangaroo is as follows:

To the children of Australia
in the hope of enlisting their sympathies
for the many beautiful, amiable, and frolicsome creatures
of their fair land,
whose extinction, through ruthless destruction,
is being surely accomplished

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Ethel C. Pedley

Pedley, Ethel Charlotte (1859 - 1898) Australian Dictionary of Biography
Works by Ethel Pedley at Project Gutenberg

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 17070548 LCCN: nr89016108

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Name	Pedley, Ethel
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Date of birth	19 June 1859
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Date of death	6 August 1898
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