Walter Lindesay Richardson MD
Subtitle: a Victorian seeker
By: Bruce Steele
Publisher: Australian Scholarly
Published: 2013
Place of publication: North Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781921875977
Subjects: Physicians; Biography; History, 19th Century; Spiritualism; History
Description: Dr Walter Richardson is known to readers - if at all - as the father of novelist Henry Handel Richardson and as the model for her character Richard Mahony. Richardson is a significant figure in his own right. Not only a dedicated doctor and obstetrician in Ballarat, he was a scholar, a thinker and an eloquent contributor in the debate between science and religion in Melbourne and elsewhere in the 1870s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.