Henry Handel Richardson
Subtitle: a life
By: Michael Ackland.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Richardson, Henry Handel, pseud.; Novelists, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.; Women and literature -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 book is the first complete biography of this enigmatic Australian literary icon. Drawing on previously unavailable records, the book sheds new light on Richardson's unconventional life. Beginning with her traumatic childhood, then tracing in detail the largely unknown story of the eleven formative years Richardson spent on the Continent, the book goes on to explore the personal and social forces that moved her during her long years as a London intellectual, concluding with her last ordeal as a frail spectator in the front-line of the Battle of Britain."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-319) and index.