The Little Black Princess: a True Tale of Life in the Never-Never Land is a 1905 children's novel by the Australian author Jeannie Gunn.
[1][2] The book is a fictionalised account of the early life of a small Aboriginal girl who took refuge with Mrs Gunn for a short time in 1902.
[4] The young Dolly was said by Mrs Gunn in 1937 to have been a niece of Ibimel Wooloomool, who she described as "the King or Chief of the Elsey River tribes".
[5] In a 1937 article for the Sydney Morning Herald, Jeannie Gunn wrote that the child on whom Bett-Bett was based was moved to Darwin as a playmate and guardian for some younger children and later worked there in domestic service as a house and parlour maid, before marrying and raising two boys and a girl.
The Aboriginal Land Commissioner, Justice Gray referenced Gunn's work in trying to establish which groups were traditional owners of the various areas.