Henry Handel Richardson, a study

Henry Handel Richardson, a study by Nettie Palmer Download PDF EPUB FB2

Henry Handel Richardson’s The Getting of Wisdom is remarkable because it is one of few novels about a girl’s maturation that has come to be understood as a “classic” and also because it is.

I love Henry Handel Richardson's novels, and because with the exception of The Young Cosimo () they are so strongly autobiographical, I was delighted to find this ex-library copy of Henry Handel Richardson, a study () by Nettie Palmer, () who was Australia's leading critic of her day.

Originally sourced from Ell's Book Centre in. Genre/Form: Biographies Biography: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Palmer, Nettie, Henry Handel Richardson. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, []. Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc History: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Palmer, Nettie, Henry Handel Richardson, a study.

This is the first book written by Henry Handel Richardson that Ive ever read. And I absolutely loved it. The plot describes the life of Maurice Guest, a music piano student who lived and studied in Leipzig in the end of the 19th century.

This book is about obsession, jealousy/5. The Getting of Wisdom book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. I was pleasantly surprised by the wit and prose of Henry Handel Richardson.

tolerable for a novel study. i'm surprised i was quite entertained by a rather simple plot, and /5. Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (Henry Handel) (), novelist and short story writer, was born on 3 January at (later renumbered ) Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Melbourne, elder daughter of Walter Lindesay Richardson (c), M.D., and his wife Mary, née Bailey.

They had migrated to the goldfields in the early s. This enthralling book provides the first complete biography of the enigmatic Australian literary icon and sheds new light on the conjecture surrounding her life.

From the Back Cover Henry Handel Richardson is one of Australia's major novelists, and one of the most elusive.4/5(1). HENRY HANDEL RICHARDSON: but the result is a book that will not be as helpful as it might have been to those studying Richardson's novels.

This is a full-length British study on the work of the novelist Henry Handel Richardson (&#;) who is attracting distinct and deserved attention. Born in Australia as Ethel Florence Richardson, and educated in Melbourne, she spent many years studying music and Author: Karen Mcleod.

Henry Handel Richardson is celebrated for her classic Australian novels The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, yet her own life-story is still to be fully told. This enthralling book is the first complete biography of this enigmatic Australian literary icon.

Richardson, Henry Handel, pseud. of Ethel Richardson Robertson, –, Australian novelist, b. Melbourne. Her years of study at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, were reflected in her book The Getting of Wisdom ().

After studying piano at Leipzig she turned to writing, living mainly in Germany until and then in England. O ne hundred years ago, on August 27Henry Handel Richardson published her first novel, Maurice Guest, a study of erotic obsession and the.

A few months ago The Land of Spices by the Irish novelist Kate O'Brien was featured in this month our subject is an Australian novel which has some similarities to the Irish one.

The Getting of Wisdom, published in by Henry Handel Richardson (, real name Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson) is like the somewhat later Irish novel set in a private girls' school whose. Henry Handel Richardson was born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson in Melbourne inthe daughter of a physician.

At the time of her birth, her father was well-off and living off his investments but, while they were touring Europe four years later, his investments failed and he returned to practice. Richardson, Henry Handel, Title Papers and correspondence of Henry Handel Richardson Date Range - Collection Number MS Extent metres (18 ms boxes + 4 archives boxes + 33 security binders + 1 small folio box + 1 medium phase box + 1 large folio box + 2 map folios + 2 volumes + 1 scrapbook + 2 folio packets + 93 books).

Stewart, Kenneth Alexander'Henry Handel Richardson: a reconsideration, a biographical and critical study of Henry Handel Richardson the novelist and of the evolution of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.', Unspecified thesis, University of : Kenneth Alexander Stewart.

The Getting of Wisdom was first published in and has continued to sell well. Germaine Greer’s introduction, of course, makes this edition even more appealing to the reader. Described by H. Wells as the best school story he knew, The Getting of Wisdom is the classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl’s coming of age.

A study of erotic obsession and the nature of genius, Henry Handel Richardson's first novel is set in the musical world of Leipzig in the s. Its extraordinary heroine, Louise, is Australian; her affair with the young English music student Maurice Guest ruins his life and career and yet he Brand: Text Publishing Company.

Dorothy gave considerable impetus to Richardson Studies by writing this book; also by originating the project of a centenary Henry Handel Richardson Seminar at the National Library inand presenting a lecture at that seminar. Entering the library for the seminar I felt her absence strongly.

The Getting of Wisdom - novel Henry Handel Richardson is the pen-name for one of Australia's greatest novelists. Despite the name HHR was a she, not a he. Laura succeeds academically, and even wins a scholarship to study music in Leipzig. She overcomes the limitations of the school, and her era. A good comparison, apart from Jo Marsh in Cited by: Explore books by Henry Handel Richardson with our selection at Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £She has been criticised as a mere chronicler of facts.

On the contrary, as this book shows, she was an imaginative writer who, working within the European literary tradition, created an autonomous world. This is the first full-length study of Henry Handel Richardson sinceand the first to include a serious study of her short by: 4.