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Henry Handel Richardson

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Born: January 02 1870

Died: 1919 03 19461946

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Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson's use of a pen-name, adopted for mixed motives, probably militated against recognition especially when feminist literary history began. Maurice Guest was highly praised in Germany when it first appeared in translation in 1912, but received a bad press in England, though it influenced other novelists. The publishers bowdlerized the language for the second imprint. The trilogy suffered from the long intervals between its three volumes: Australia Felix ; The Way Home and Ultima Thule . The last brought overnight fame and the three volumes were published as one in 1930. Her fame in England was short-lived; as late as 1977, when Virago Press republished The Getting of Wisdom, some London critics referred to the author as 'Mr Richardson'. Her short stories, The End of a Childhood , and the novel, The Young Cosima , had lukewarm receptions.

Henry Handel Richardson's place in Australian literature is important and secure. The Fortunes is an archetypal novel of the country, written about the great upsurge of nineteenth-century Western capitalism fuelled by the gold discoveries. With relentless objectivity it surveys all the main issues which were to define the direction of white Australian society from the 1850s onwards, within the domestic framework of a marriage. Powerfully symbolic in a realistic mode it is, as an English critic said in 1973, 'one of the great inexorable books of the world'.

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Henry Handel Richardson

Henry Handel Richardson

Books from Henry Handel Richardson

The Getting of Wisdom

Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Australia Felix

Çocukluğun Sonu

And Women Must Weep

Two Hanged Women

Myself When Young

Henry Handel Richardson: The Letters, Volume 3: 1934 - 1946

Ultima Thule

Henry Handel Richardson: The Letters, Volume 1: 1874-1915

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund (Illustrated)

Complete Stories

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin and The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and Katherine Eglund (Illustrated)

7 best short stories by Henry Handel Richardson

Maurice Guest Volume 1

My Brilliant Career and The Getting of Wisdom (Illustrated)

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Growing Pains - The End of a Childhood

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

Major Works of Henry Handel Richardson