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Samenvatting van Een Australisch meisje
- 8 min. leestijd
- 8 parts
- Binnenkort te beluisteren
A twelve-year-old in a black bonnet and a dog chain sets out to haunt her grandfather and mend a family feud.
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Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
- Leestijd
- Ongeveer 2 h 40 min2 h 5 min fast, 3 h 10 min slow
- Lengte
- 37.900 woorden
- Bibliotheekniveau
- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1901by Lilian Turner
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Een Australisch meisje in short
An Australian Lassie follows one headstrong girl through a few crowded weeks in the bush and city around Sydney. Betty Bruce is poor, quick and fearless, and she is sure she can reunite her mother with a stern sea captain and make her family rich. Her plans become a ghost visit, a fight in her brother's clothes and a flight to sing on city corners, and each lands her in new trouble.
What Een Australisch meisje is about
Picture a small girl on a school bench, brown eyes fixed on a new boy, while the master asks how she fell twenty-two places in one afternoon. This is Elizabeth Bruce, called Betty, and her answer is bold, funny and aimed at exactly the wrong person.
An Australian Lassie is a children's novel by Lilian Turner, set in the bush north of Sydney Harbour in the days of horse coaches and slate pencils. Betty, twelve and a bit, decides to mend her mother's old quarrel with her sea-captain father and make everyone rich. Every plan goes comically wrong.
Voor wie is het?. Made for readers who love spirited girls, family comedy and the Australian bush, and for anyone who enjoys a warm storyteller's voice and children with grand plans.
The story in 8 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A bold girl falls to the bottom of class
Wygate School opens with a roll call. Mr. Sharman reads the class order aloud, and at the very bottom, in twenty-third place, sits Elizabeth Bruce. Only yesterday she was first.
Her answer is a small speech, and she aims every word at the new boy, John Brown, who waits by the master's desk for a seat. She pulled a girl's hair and lost three places. Then she whispered the spelling of giraffe to her twin brother Cyril, and down she went.
Things get worse. Brown is placed one seat above her, and she whispers cheat at him and kicks his boot. Then he works a huge multiplication so easily that his answer includes a decimal point, which the class has not learned. By lunch he sits at the head of the class, while Elizabeth writes lines fifty times.
Betty is proud, quick and hot-tempered, and she tells the truth even when it costs her dearly.
Betty's pride and plain honesty land her in trouble, and they are exactly what make her easy to love.
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Poverty and an old quarrel shape the Bruce home
After school the children slip into the bush to play pearl seeking.
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A ghost in a black bonnet tries to move an old man
Betty's plan is simple.
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A boy raised on a station fights for his name
John Brown is not at all what the Bruces suppose.
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Books about self-made men send two children toward the road
John spends his evenings in his grandfather's library, reading the lives of self-made men.
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Two runaways meet the real city
Betty wakes at half past four and dresses in her Cinderella frock.
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Everyone wishes to be someone else
Almost everyone in this book would rather be living another life.
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A warm and funny voice tells the story
Much of the pleasure here comes from the narrator.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Elizabeth Bruce Called Betty, twelve and a bit, proud and fearless. She wants to heal her mother's quarrel with the captain and make her family rich.
- Cyril Bruce Betty's fair, delicate twin brother, the only son. He wants to be adopted and rich, but he is nervous about every danger.
- Dorothea Bruce The eldest sister, golden-haired and sixteen. She loves the elegant world of her school and dreads the noise and poverty of home.
- John Brown Also called John Carew-Brown. A strong boy from the outback who wants to become a self-made man and an artist.
- Captain Carew The grandfather of Dene Hall, a stern retired sea captain. He has refused to forgive his daughter for seventeen years.
- Nancy Bruce Six years old and easily frightened. She trots after Betty and is cast as the wife in the pearl-seeking game.
How it ends (spoiler)
A greengrocer finds Betty in Sydney and brings her, asleep, to Dene Hall. The captain looks softly at her but denies she means anything to him. At home she is locked in her room for three days as a punishment. Then Dorothea leaves for Katoomba, and Betty gives her a shilling. As the captain drives past with John, he smiles at Betty; later she stands on a tree stump, waving goodbye.
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What is An Australian Lassie about?
It tells of Betty Bruce, a spirited twelve-year-old in the bush near Sydney. Her mother was cut off by her sea-captain father, and Betty tries a ghost visit before defending Cyril and running away to seek her fortune.
Who is John Brown in An Australian Lassie?
John Brown is a tall, strong new boy at Wygate School, raised on an outback cattle station. He is the captain's grandson, and he dreams of making his own way in life like the heroes he reads about.
Why does Betty dress as a ghost?
Betty hopes a ghostly scare will soften her superstitious grandfather, the old sea captain. She wants him to make peace with her mother and perhaps adopt her brother Cyril, so the family will no longer be poor.
Is An Australian Lassie a true story, and where is it set?
It is a work of fiction set in the bush near Willoughby on Sydney's North Shore, with scenes in the city. It shows everyday life from the age of horse coaches, slate pencils and harbor punts.
Is An Australian Lassie easy to read aloud?
Yes. Short chapters, lively dialogue, a warm narrator and plain language make it a pleasure to read aloud. Short chapters move between school, home, bush and city, mixing lively scenes with accounts of the children's family circumstances and ambitions.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Turner, Lilian. An Australian Lassie. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/an-australian-lassie.
Turner, L. (2026). An Australian lassie. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/an-australian-lassie (Original work published 1901)
Turner, Lilian. An Australian Lassie. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/an-australian-lassie.
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