Purdie, Edna, 1894-

Edna Purdie collaborated with Olga Roncoroni, secretary to the novelist Henry Handel Richardson, in the posthumous publication of her novels. Born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson in Melbourne, she made only one visit to Australia, in 1912, after leaving it in 1887. She studied music in Leipzig before devoting herself to writing. She married J.G. Robertson in 1895. Her works include Maurice Guest (1908),The getting of wisdom, (1910) and the Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930). In 1939 she began her autobiography Myself when young which was published in 1948 with a final section written by her secretary Olga Rancoroni.