Henry Handel Richardson

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Henry Handel Richardson


Born
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
January 03, 1870

Died
March 20, 1946

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Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson Robertson for mixed motives used and adopted Henry Handel Richardson, a pen-name that 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 (1917); The Way Home (1925) and Ultima Thule (1929). 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 T ...more

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The Getting of Wisdom

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3.48 avg rating — 1,680 ratings — published 1910 — 174 editions
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Fortunes of Richard Mahony

4.17 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1930 — 62 editions
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Australia Felix

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3.74 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1917 — 55 editions
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Maurice Guest

3.65 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1908 — 112 editions
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Çocukluğun Sonu

3.61 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1934 — 13 editions
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Ultima Thule

3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1929 — 27 editions
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The Way Home (Fortunes of R...

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And Women Must Weep

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Myself When Young

3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1948 — 11 editions
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Two Hanged Women

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“After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.”
Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom

“The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child ”
Henry Handel Richardson

“Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.”
Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom

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