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Richardson, Henry Handel, pseud.
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Handel Richardson, Henry 1870-1946
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Robertson, Henrietta Richardson
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Robertson, Ethel Henrietta Richardson 1870-1946
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Richardson, Henrietta
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Robertson, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson
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Richardson Ethel Florence Lindesay 1870-1946
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Robertson, Ethel Florence L.
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Richardson, Ethel Henrietta
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Richardson, Ethel Henrietta
Robertson, Henrietta Richardson, 1870-1946
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Richardson, Ethel Henrietta 1870-1946
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Richardson, Henry H. 1870-1946
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Robertson, Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson 1870-1946
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Robertson, Ethel Henrietta Richardson
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Richardson, Henrietta, 1870-1946
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Handel, Henry
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Robertson, Ethel Florence Lindesay, 1870-1946
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Robertson, Ethel Florence Lindesay, 1870-1946
Richardson, H. H. 1870-1946
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Handel Richardson, Henry
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Lindesay, Ethel Florence 1870-1946
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Robertson, Ethel Henrietta
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Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay.
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Richardson, Henrietta Ethel 1870-1946
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Henrietta Richardson Robinson, writing as Henry Handel Richardson, was a major Australian novelist rather forgotten in the rest of the world. Although she lived most of her adult life in Germany and England, her fiction remained Australian, evoking a sense of national pride in her fans and critics and influencing numerous diverse Australian authors.
'Henry Handel Richardson', pseudonym for Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, was born in Melbourne in 1870, the daughter of English migrants. In her major work, the trilogy 'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony', she draws heavily on autobiographical family experience and her childhood environment. From 1883 to 1887 she attended the Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne, and used aspects of this experience in her novel 'The Getting of Wisdom' (1910). In 1888 her mother took her to Europe where she trained as a concert pianist, discovered European literature and thought, and met her future husband, J.G. Robertson, a doctoral student of German literature. They were married in 1895 and after some years in Strasbourg, moved to England where Robertson was appointed to the Chair of German Literature at the University of London. Richardson's most significant supporter was her husband who made it possible for her to devote her life almost entirely to writing. After the 'Mahony' trilogy followed 'The Young Cosima' and a collection of stories. She also kept up an extensive correspondence with friends and other literati, but did not disclose her gender to some of her correspondents. After her husband's death in 1933, she moved to Sussex with her secretary and companion Olga Roncoroni. She died in 1946, and her unfinished autobiography 'Myself When Young' was published posthumously.
Novelist. See 'The Oxford companion to Australian literature', pp. 584-587.
Novelist, born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, daughter of Dr. W.L. Richardson, who emigrated to Victoria in the 1850s. Studied music in Leipzig before devoting herself to writing. Married J.G. Robertson in 1895. Main works: Maurice Guest (1908), The Getting of Wisdom (1910), The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930). Visited Australia once (1912) after leaving in 1887.
Writer. Author of The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney, Maurice Guest, The Young Cosima, etc. Real name Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson.
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