Ethel Castilla (19 June 1861 – 27 March 1937) was an Australian journalist, poet and short story writer.
[8] Her younger sister, Amy Castilla (1868–1898) was a medical practitioner and co-founder of the Queen Victoria hospital in Melbourne.
[12] She also wrote poems for The Australasian (1904–1913)[2] and articles for The Sydney Morning Herald, including a series on "The Flower of the Month".
[19][20] The poem was included in an English anthology, Australian Ballads and gave its name to her 1900 collection, for which Rolf Boldrewood wrote a "most complimentary preface".
[23] In the 1920s she served as honorary secretary of the Camberwell Municipal Library Committee and wrote letters to The Age,[24] The Argus[25] and the Box Hill Reporter[26] to garner support.